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 service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Purpose
  • Traveler
  • Render

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

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Environment
  • Changes
  • Architect

• I don't think I'm ever afraid, but I doubt myself often. Because of that doubt, I constantly strive to make myself better.

  

  Alrick Brown
  • Doubt
  • Better
  • Strive

• 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