"Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about."

-- Francoise Sagan

#Aversion Quotes #Littles Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.”

Source : Kathleen Thompson Norris (1914). “Saturday's Child”
“Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!”
“One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability. You may have a terrorist incident or you may have a revisionist regime like the Iranians, but on the whole, the region is twenty countries. On the whole, you go to bed and you wake up and you have a pretty good idea that most of those twenty are doing just fine, you don't have to pay attention to them. There's some stuff going on but you don't have to worry about a governmental overthrow that will suddenly force you to evacuate your embassies.”
“With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.”
“I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.”
“Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.”
“I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.”

Source : "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.
“The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.”

You may also like:

Boris Vian
Writer
Francoise Hardy
Singer
George Sand
Novelist
Jean Seberg
Film actress
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Marguerite Duras
Writer
Pierre Desproges
Humorist
Simone de Beauvoir
Writer
Marcel Pagnol