Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC BUFFON The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by exp...
GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC BUFFON Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The style is the man himself
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the m...
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by exp...
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is hav...
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Genius is patience.
BUFFON My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't kno...
KATIE LECLERC We're not worried at all. Guys are going to get there. They're going to be fine. Once league play st...
BRIAN LECLERC He's made huge strides. Last fall I said this guy is going to be the guy and I didn't get a lot of p...
BRIAN LECLERC There was no way we were going to do that again.
BRIAN LECLERC This year we've put ourselves in position to play at home this whole week. I think that we're going ...
BRIAN LECLERC No one likes to get beat on their home turf, especially not by a big rival like that,
BRIAN LECLERC We know they beat us on our home turf earlier on in the year, ... Around here, we don't like that to...
BRIAN LECLERC We just wanted to come out here and play hard, ... We knew that we had Alan Horne on the mound and h...
BRIAN LECLERC It's our job on offense to put up some runs, ... We got help from everyone, top to bottom, freshman ...
BRIAN LECLERC I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear....
KATIE LECLERC All this is supposed to blend in order to tell a story ... (the play) should be natural when you're ...
JEAN LECLERC I'm trying to see the reflection of what I want, it's a fascinating thing … the focus is now havin...
JEAN LECLERC She's 82 years old, she's about to die, she knows it and she has this kind of a dream of what it wou...
JEAN LECLERC That's why I'm directing this show to the men in the audience. They're the ones who need the instruc...
JEAN LECLERC You could argue that she was the first feminist, but I think she was more than that, a visionary abl...
JEAN LECLERC You never get the totality of Eleanor in The Lion In Winter,
JEAN LECLERC Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,
JEAN LECLERC I'm trying to see the reflection of what I want, it's a fascinating thing … the focus is now having...
JEAN LECLERC You can sit here and you can visit the national library of Australia, of Great Britain, of France, o...
PAUL LECLERC I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than ...
KATIE LECLERC I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.
GIANLUIGI BUFFON The pitch is the most beautiful part of the game; it gives you emotions which bring meaning to life.
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with ...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a ...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as we...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It&#...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mi...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often under...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whe...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON People don't mind you feeling low if you are still performing. But if you've shared too much...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to gro...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But th...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON Even if I were offered twice my salary elsewhere, I would stay at Juve. Doing so would make me proud...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I think that's normal for someone who wants to g...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the d...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON The team is hurt, but we have a great desire to win. There is certainly not a lot of happiness on th...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON For us, there is surely no other alternative. We have to win.
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I realize the (league title) doesn't provide much excitement anymore but it's still important to bri...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON He's not a reserve or a part-time player. He's a champion that can alter a game, whether he enters f...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON When you talk for days about a result, a 2-2 result not just a draw, and then it comes out like this...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
COMTE DE BUFFON Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta...
GEORGES BATAILLE I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
GEORGES BIZET In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
GEORGES SIMENON Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
GEORGES BRAGUE Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
GEORGES SIMENON I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a si...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
GEORGES BERNANOS Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
GEORGES BATAILLE Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
GEORGES DUHAMEL We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
GEORGES DUHAMEL America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degen...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
GEORGES CARPENTIER A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of actio...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
GEORGES COURTELINE Out of limitations, new forms emerge
GEORGES BRAQUE If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
GEORGES GUYNEMER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tri...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
GEORGES BERNANOS Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
GEORGES BATAILLE Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhea...
GEORGES BATAILLE Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
GEORGES BATAILLE The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is ...
GEORGES BATAILLE The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
GEORGES BERNANOS It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
GEORGES BERNANOS A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
GEORGES BERNANOS Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur an...
GEORGES BATAILLE Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
GEORGES BATAILLE What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing wat...
GEORGES BERNANOS War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are...
GEORGES BATAILLE Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to co...
GEORGES BERNANOS No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
GEORGES BERNANOS Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... ...
GEORGES BATAILLE Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...
GEORGES BATAILLE What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from ...
GEORGES BERNANOS To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b...
GEORGES BATAILLE And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ...
GEORGES BERNANOS A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at...
GEORGES BATAILLE At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in ge...
GEORGES BATAILLE Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious ...
GEORGES BERNANOS God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of the...
GEORGES BERNANOS Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of...
GEORGES BERNANOS It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
GEORGES BERNANOS The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and ne...
GEORGES BERNANOS When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize...
GEORGES BERNANOS Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by...
GEORGES BATAILLE In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
GEORGES DANTON Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...
GEORGES BATAILLE The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
GEORGES BERNANOS I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
GEORGES BATAILLE Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
GEORGES BATAILLE Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, b...
GEORGES BIDAULT I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the...
GEORGES POMPIDOU Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur ...
GEORGES BATAILLE Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of ...
GEORGES SEURAT Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
GEORGES DUHAMEL As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the superna...
GEORGES BIZET Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
GEORGES BRAQUE Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o...
GEORGES BERNANOS Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
GEORGES SEURAT The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
GEORGES SIMENON Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
GEORGES SEURAT The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to u...
GEORGES BATAILLE The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep ...
GEORGES DUHAMEL Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
GEORGES BERNANOS Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run.
GEORGES BERNANOS It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
GEORGES BERNANOS Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict...
GEORGES DUHAMEL The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell...
GEORGES ROUAULT What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
GEORGES BIZET A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
GEORGES CLéMENCEAU For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - ...
GEORGES DUHAMEL We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The H...
GEORGES DUHAMEL War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ...
GEORGES BERNANOS Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
GEORGES SIMENON The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, th...
GEORGES CUVIER I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
GEORGES SIMENON Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress...
GEORGES RODENBACH War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
GEORGES COURTELINE A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degener...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lac...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our ...
GEORGES ROUAULT Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime.
SEAN GEORGES I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
GEORGES SIMENON Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, ...
GEORGES CUVIER Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means
GEORGES BERNANOS Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible in...
GEORGES DUHAMEL By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr...
GEORGES AUGUSTE The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless...
GEORGES ROUAULT He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
GEORGES POMPIDOU Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person....
GEORGES BATAILLE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut...
GEORGES BATAILLE Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was s...
GEORGES CUVIER Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual, it is mostly ...
GEORGES BERTRAND A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...
GEORGES BERNANOS It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e...
GEORGES SIMENON We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, aki...
GEORGES BATAILLE Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...
GEORGES BATAILLE The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
GEORGES BERNANOS It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most pre...
GEORGES BERNANOS It's the first time there will be Asian Excellence Awards handed out for performances on TV, movies ...
BILL GEORGES I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a...
GEORGES BIDAULT