Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes

what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

Frederic Louis Sauser

• Stupidity
• Jealousy
• Impulse
• Contradiction
• Nihilism

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• The only power you have is the word no.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Power
  • You
  • Word

• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
  • Picture
  • Key

• I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Career
  • Play
  • Rock

• In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • She
  • Together

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Think
  • Never
  • Find

• Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Rose

• Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Science

• But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time

• Earth-worms abound in England in many different stations. Their castings may be seen in extraordinary numbers on commons and chalk-downs, so as almost to cover the whole surface, where the soil is poor and the grass short and thin.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Different
  • May
  • Earth

• It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Environment

• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Up
  • Giving

• Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

  

  Dina Powell
  • Women
  • Empowering

• It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • World
  • True
  • Culture

• Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

  

  Steven Hatfill
  • Feel
  • Part
  • Contributing

• Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

  

  Karl Albrecht
  • People
  • Organization
  • Intelligent

• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Stupidity
  • Jealousy
  • Impulse