Pierre Pradervand Quotes

The most important choices we make in life are not the dramatic turning points such as a change of career, the person we marry, the country we emigrate to. The most important choices are the thoughts and feelings we choose to entertain, moment after moment, day after day. They shape our lives more surely than any outward circumstance. So why not opt for an experience of blessing – of blessing life moment after moment? After all, each moment is the repository of infinite possibilities, ever renewed.

Pierre Pradervand, The Gentle Art of Blessing ~ Pierre Pradervand

By doubting we are led to enquiry, and by enquiry we discern the truth. ~ Pierre Abelard

Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it. ~ Pierre Alechinsky

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents. ~ Pierre Omidyar

Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was. ~ Pierre Boulez

The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one's power of discovery and that leads to the discovery of our organic ourselves without fear of immersing ourselves in the earth, the sea, fire or air. ~ Pierre Alechinsky

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent. ~ Pierre Nicole

As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor. ~ David Graeber

Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom. ~ Pierre Hadot

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life. ~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet

The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image. ~ Pierre Reverdy

He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in the romantic history of Alexander, the Conqueror of Emathia was said to have found in the vale of Jordan snakes 'with collars of real emeralds growing on their backs.' There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and 'by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe' the monster could be thrown into a magical sleep and slain. According to the great alchemist, Pierre de Boniface, the diamond rendered a man invisible, and the agate of India made him eloquent. The cornelian appeased anger, and the hyacinth provoked sleep, and the amethyst drove away the fumes of wine. The garnet cast out demons, and the hydropicus deprived the moon of her color. The selenite waxed and waned with the moon, and the meloceus, that discovers thieves, could be affected only by the blood of kids. Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison. The bezoar, that was found in the heart of the Arabian deer, was a charm that could cure the plague. In the nests of Arabian birds was the aspirates, that, according to Democritus, kept the wearer from any danger by fire. ~ Oscar Wilde

Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican."
A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs -- no matter under what form of government -- may call himself a republican. Even kings are republicans."
Well! You are a democrat?"
No."
What! "you would have a monarchy?"
No."
A Constitutionalist?"
God forbid."
Then you are an aristocrat?"
Not at all!"
You want a mixed form of government?"
Even less."
Then what are you?"
I am an anarchist."


Oh! I understand you; you speak satirically. This is a hit at the government."


By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

For fun, we sometimes unofficially changed our names when we crossed country borders, with such variations as Jean-Pierre and Fifi (France), Hans and Heidi (Germany and Austria), Carlos and Carlotta (Spain), Sergio and Sophia (Italy), Dominic and Nehru (Romania), and Mary and Josepf (Poland). This helped us get in the spirit of each new country. ~ Dan Krull

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning. ~ Georges St-Pierre

I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945. ~ Pierre Boulez

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. ~ Pierre Bonnard

Oh you dear companions
Electric bells of the stations song of the reapers
Butcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streets
Cavalry of bridges nights livid with alcohol
The cities I've seen lived like mad women
(The Voyager) ~ Pierre Albert-Birot

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed. ~ Pierre Schaeffer

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. ~ Pierre Abelard

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. ~ Pierre Bonnard

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century. ~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ~ Pierre Bayle

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged. ~ Pierre Bonnard

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

For my part ... I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. ~ Pierre Trudeau

What good are flowers without water?
What good are promises without actions? ~ Pierre Alex Jeanty

I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now. I suspect that all films will have aged terribly and that the cinema probably won't even exist anymore. My guess is that the final disappearance of cinemas will take place around the year 2020, so in fifty years' time, there will be nothing but television. ~ Jean-Pierre Melville

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day. ~ Pierre Corneille

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. ~ Pierre Corneille

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority. ~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

All perceptions, all volitions occupy the
same seat in these (cerebral) organs; the faculty of perceiving,
of conceiving, of willing merely constitutes
therefore a faculty which is essentially one. ~ KANDEL

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. ~ Pierre Beaumarchais

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. ~ Pierre Corneille