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.

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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

• The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Arts
  • Bottom Line

• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

  

  William Shatner
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Reality

• 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