"The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God."

-- Jean Rostand

#Atheist Quotes #Men Quotes #Quality Quotes

“The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.”
“Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.”
“I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.”
“However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.”
“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”
“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.”

Source : "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.
“Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.”
“Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.”

You may also like:

Alain Resnais
Film director
Boris Vian
Writer
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dramatist
Edmond Rostand
Poet
Henry de Montherlant
Essayist
Jean Moulin
Jean-Henri Fabre
Entomologist
Jules Romains
Poet