Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Famous Quotes
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you."
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
Writing only leads to more writing.
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
We only do well the things we like doing.
"Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotations
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
Frank Zappa
Time eases all things.
Sophocles
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."
Vince Lombardi
"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton
"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
George Bernard Shaw
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
Reverend Edward A Malloy
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvie