Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Party
  • Beach

• A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Society
  • Respect

• Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Property
  • Annihilate

• I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • World
  • Glad
  • Hole

• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Food
  • Change

• One sin another doth provoke.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Provoking

• Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Purpose
  • Anxiety
  • Human Beings

• Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Causes
  • Activity

• This investment will contribute towards the renaissance of Hull which is already under well under way.

  

  Alan Johnson
  • Way
  • Investment
  • Renaissance

• Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Fool

• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Childhood
  • Christmas
  • Traveler

• Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

  

  Moliere
  • Happiness
  • Bore
  • Downs

• The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Traveler
  • Foot
  • Sits