"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV."

-- Marie Antoinette

#Cake Quotes #Wife Quotes #People Quotes

“I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.”
“My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.”
“I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.”
“Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!”
“She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since...since the minute I first saw you.”
“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
“When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.”
“Some will say: "Why should we celebrate the birth of colonialism, of oppression, of cultural genocide through Canada 150?" It's 2017. In spite of the genocide we faced via the residential school system, and all we have endured from colonialism and control, from 1876 to this day, we're still here. We need to show the country and the world that we are still here.”

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