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Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#america #anybody #based #french #headlines

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#also #believe #days #fact #feeling

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.


William Gilbert


#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.


Evelyn Glennie


#i #instruments #into #kids #little

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?


Amin Maalouf


#family #happiness #life #family

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.


William Godwin


#general #good #happiness #humanity #justice

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.


William Godwin


#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#ball #feet #happiness #our #push

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#doubts #i #me #must #my own

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#finds #great #great talent #happiness #really