Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.
Jane Russell
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln
I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
William Shakespeare
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
William Blackstone
In the band I was in, we knew when we’d done the take, because it just feels good. It’s like golf. When you hit that ball right, you know. You feel it – you feel the connection. And connecting is good.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
Marcel Proust
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
John Lennon
The Beatles
I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.
Kathryn Erskine
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
Gautama Buddha
In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
