Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• Illusion
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• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

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• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
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• People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

  

  Halsey
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• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

  Victor Grignard
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  • Acid

• Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Giving
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• Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Sin
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  • Tables

• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Way
  • Evil

• Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Courage
  • Minds

• The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Great
  • Done
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• Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

  

  T. Harv Eker
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• This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

  

  Clark Gable
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• Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

  

  Fannie Flagg
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• For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  • Air

• Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Long
  • Habit
  • Part

• I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven
  • Surfing

• All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Forever
  • Gold

• There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Girls
  • Illusion
  • Recover