Louis Faurer Quotes

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love. ~ Louis Faurer

Nothing made by brute force lasts. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London. ~ T. S. Eliot

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart. ~ Louis Auguste Blanqui

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. ~ Louis Menand

As a rule, the Government appoints its friends. ~ Hector-Louis Langevin

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793) ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. ~ Louis L'Amour

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. ~ Louis Farrakhan

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond. ~ Louis L'Amour

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. ~ Daniel Nathans

We are both disciples of the Louis Jordan song 'What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again). ~ C.J. Box

And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table. ~ Jeffrey Rosen

The road to success, and by that I mean ... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy. ~ Louis Finkelstein

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost! ~ Louis Farrakhan

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ~ Louis L'Amour

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut. ~ Dick Dale

We went there to grope for our happiness, which all the world was threatening with the utmost ferocity. We were ashamed of wanting what we wanted, but something had to be done about it all the same. Love is harder to give up than life. In this world we spend our time killing or adoring, or both together. "I hate you! I adore you!" We keep going, we fuel and refuel, we pass on our life to a biped of the next century, with frenzy, at any cost, as if it were the greatest of pleasures to perpetuate ourselves, as if, when all's said and done, it would make us immortal. One way or another, kissing is as indispensable as scratching. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

And Louis is weak. Let him give an inch, and some Cromwell will appear. ~ Hilary Mantel

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. ~ Louis Pasteur

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race. ~ Henry Louis Gates

Captain," said I, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

A king should die standing. ~ Louis XVIII Of France

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails ~ Louis MacNeice

It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work. ~ Louis Aragon

Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous. ~ Louis De Bernieres

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie. ~ Louis Garrel

I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris. ~ Eleanor Smeal

Louis embraced her, realizing that this was the way it work or the way it was supposed to work, anyway--some kind of human charge that went back and forth, loosening up the hard earth of loss, venting it, breaking up the rocky path of shock with the heat of sorrow. ~ Stephen King

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos
and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth. ~ Frantz Fanon

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun. ~ Louis Nizer