#versa

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #versa




The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.


Alain de Botton


#both-sides #opponents #politics #understanding #courage

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#fashion #out #soon #universal

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.


John Green


#forgotten #memory #remembering #death

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.


Jodi Picoult


#conversation #delilah-mcphee #humor #jules #paying-attention

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette


Kathryn Lasky


#kathryn #lasky #marie-antoinette #princess #versailles

How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how to reply. Mama, [...] how do we know that things are real?' Great. Now we have a junior existentialist in the house. Well, we don't know. We just have to hope that what we think is real is real.' But how do we know?' she asked, insistently. Ah, a scientist, who wants empirical evidence. We don't know. We just have to hope.' Mama, how do we know things aren't a dream? You know, how sometimes life feels like a dream? Do you ever feel that way?' Yes, sweetie, I feel that way all the time.


Julie Metz


#daughter #dreams #life #mother #reality

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.


Angela Carter


#hollywood #into #itself #mass #mass production

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.


May Wright Sewall


#despotism #guarantee #only #suffrage #universal

Do you suppose it's so much easier to make conversation with someone you already know well than with someone you don't know at all primarily because of all the previously exchanged information and shared experiences between two people who know each other well, or because maybe it's only with people we already know well and know know us well that we don't go through the awkward mental process of subjecting everything we think of saying or bringing up as a topic of light conversation to a self-conscious critical analysis and evaluation that manages to make anything we think of proposing to say the other person seem dull or stupid or banal or on the other hand maybe overly intimate or tension-producing?


David Foster Wallace


#experience

Question for your life: Let’s say we’re on a date, and I’m being all seductive by talking nonstop about such interesting topics as intergalactic nano armies and the precise elevation at which a really tall building becomes a skyscraper, how would you respond if I invited you back to my grandma’s house for a passionate night of love making?


Jarod Kintz


#dinner #flirtation #seduction #dating