Lafontant Jean Quotes

#1. The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. #Quote by Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#2. With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#3. I bend and do not break. #Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

#4. The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right. #Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#6. A birthday:-and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife-
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life. #Quote by Jean Ingelow

#7. What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes? #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. #Quote by Jean Baudrillard

#9. Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive. #Quote by Louise Penny

#10. Youth is life's beautiful moment. #Quote by Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#11. I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it? #Quote by Jean Illsley Clarke

#12. I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films. #Quote by Jean-Marc Vallee

#13. Quoting Father Seraphim:
Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27) #Quote by Jean-Yves Leloup

#14. But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening. #Quote by Jean Rhys

#15. To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. #Quote by Jean Rostand

#16. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. #Quote by Jean-Dominique Bauby

#17. The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#18. At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company. #Quote by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#19. Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple. #Quote by Jean Thompson

#21. The day fades, the darkness grows. The sky closes slowly like a box. This is the time when the sorrows of the sick become more bitter still, for the dark night takes them by the throat. #Quote by Jean Teule

#22. I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry #Quote by Jean-Claude Izzo

#23. Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face. #Quote by Jean Paul

#24. I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity; that smooth stretch of consciousness between the balls and ass. #Quote by James Jean

#25. ...I was the beginning, the middle and the end all rolled into one small boy, already old, already dead, here, in the shadows, between the stacks of plates higher than himself, and outside, very far away, in the cast and gloomy sunshine of glory. I was the particle at the beginning of its trajectory and the series of waves which flows back on it after it has struck the terminal buffer. Reassembled and compressed, one hand on my tomb and the other on my cradle, I felt brief and splendid, a flash of lightening swallowed up in darkness. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#26. Oh, of course, if a man keeps his soul in a bandbox he can produce it immaculate in the end; but what's a soul for if it's not for use? He would much better live in the world with his fellow-men, and help them keep their souls clean, even at the risk of getting his own a little dusty. #Quote by Jean Webster

#27. when change is needed and strongly desired by citizens, change will come, one way or another. #Quote by Jean Sasson

#28. Always write exactly what you're feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work ... make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing joyful things, feel lovey if it calls for it ... just put your heart and soul into all that you do ... then you will be a good writer when you can make whoever reads your work, feel. -Nina Jean Slack #Quote by Nina Jean Slack

#29. Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#30. Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#31. Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one? #Quote by Jean Rhys

#32. Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. #Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

#33. There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. #Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#34. Man is the being whose project it is to be God. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#35. Do you regret those days?'
'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#36. I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment. #Quote by Jean O'Leary

#37. The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform. #Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker

#38. The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish. #Quote by Jean Vanier

#39. During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise. #Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker

#40. It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body. #Quote by George Jean Nathan

#41. I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour. #Quote by Billie Jean King

#42. It was still very wet under the trees. A careless tug at a branch might flip cold rainbow-edged drops down your back. And the sky was gray as concrete. But they enjoyed the silence, the soft sucking ground matted with last year's needles. #Quote by Jean Thompson

#43. Jassaline's little potion seems to have brought up every meal I've had in the past five years." said Locke.
"Nothing left to spit up but my naked soul. Make sure it isn't floating around in one of those before you toss them, right?"
"I think I see it," Jean said. "Nasty, crooked little thing it is too; you're better off with it floating out to sea. #Quote by Scott Lynch

#44. I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU. #Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker