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

• 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

• Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Sometimes
  • Littles
  • Drunk

• Bad luck wasn’t part of it. Bad luck is breaking your foot.

  

  Ernst Happel
  • Breaking
  • Foot
  • Bad Luck

• 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

• Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Persons
  • Firsts
  • Horrible

• 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