FastSaying

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.


Georges Bataille

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b...
GEORGE BATAILLE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve...
ANUJ SOMANY The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI My Life is boring without God
GENEREUX PHILIPUX Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed....
G.K. CHESTERTON A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]....
THOMAS MERTON The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
JOHN PIPER The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus
JOHN PIPER What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When I don't know where to turn, You always draw me near; when I start to feel alone, I can feel You...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was w...
ORAL ROBERTS Our fellow being is god & God is in our fellow being.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is a God in disguise. Thank you to God, and I was waiting for the worst. I know that God knows...
GIRLENE SOARES The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost t...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Who says you can't fall in love on your own? Whenever you listen to music, close your eyes... And th...
MAICHEE SUMMER The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Only God is good."

"We can make good works,
We can be called good folks
We can ...
MAC CANOZA Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches dow...
E. STANLEY JONES Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER Believe in God is the beauty of being.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
PETER KREEFT Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI When we talk about the theology of 'God is Dead,' this means that the notion of God must be dead in ...
THICH NHAT HANH The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.
THOMAS WATSON People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the ...
DESMOND TUTU The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that...
KARL BARTH God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON Love is a moment that last forever
TERRENCE TAYLOR Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicat...
CATHERINE TOON If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicat...
CATHERINE TOON The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — fo...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM "There is a difference between being anointed and being gifted. The anointing is the ability to exer...
TAMARA N. GREEN The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
TERRY PRATCHETT Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Feast of All Saints From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still l...
A. W. PINK Love is a Person Who wants to be known.
CATHERINE TOON "There is a difference between being anointed and being gifted. The anointing is the ability to exer...
TAMARA N. GREEN Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in...
A. W. TOZER The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and pa...
HENRI NOUWEN I believe in me. I'm God. God is your need to believe in some super being. I am the super being. I a...
AL GOLDSTEIN This is the worst ran department in the state of Tennessee. Swear to God it is.
BOYCE MCCALL Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou ...
JEAN INGELOW David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him. Conversing with God about all the things th...
C. NEIL STRAIT Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all t...
MEISTER ECKHART God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes ...
JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of al...
SENECA God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and wo...
NIK RIPKEN THE INSANITY OF GOD The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God...
ROGER EBERT All service ranks the same with God: With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no la...
ROBERT BROWNING But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the p...
BIBLE Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you ...
MEISTER ECKHART Where love is, there God is also.
MAHATMA GANDHI All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR Lord, please do this ... or do something better!
PRISCILLA SHIRER What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
RODNEY STARK To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is ...
RAVI ZACHARIAS One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often ...
CRISS JAMI The soul is that aspect of a human being that exists in correspondence to the entire universe, namel...
TALIDARI What you have to consider, is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. Thi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ...
GERMANY KENT I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J...
POPE FRANCIS If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C. My true religion, my faith in God. He gives me love and compassion. I simply return them by loving a...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a...
IMMANUEL KANT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy...
PAUL WASHER It is clear that Nature created everything , not an Intelligent designer . The reason is because nat...
REYNALD PETER SANDEL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense gr...
JAKOB BOHME

More Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta...
GEORGES BATAILLE Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
GEORGES BATAILLE Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
GEORGES BATAILLE 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 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 The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are...
GEORGES BATAILLE 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 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 Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by...
GEORGES BATAILLE Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...
GEORGES BATAILLE 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 Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur ...
GEORGES BATAILLE The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to u...
GEORGES BATAILLE Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person....
GEORGES BATAILLE The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut...
GEORGES BATAILLE 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 Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu...
GEORGES BATAILLE If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce...
GEORGES BATAILLE My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to resto...
GEORGES BATAILLE Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...
GEORGE BATAILLE I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
GEORGE BATAILLE finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love
GEORGE BATAILLE Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta...
GEORGE BATAILLE To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b...
GEORGE BATAILLE Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence.
GEORGE BATAILLE In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation.
GEORGE BATAILLE Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur an...
GEORGE BATAILLE Naturally, Love's the most distant possibility.
GEORGE BATAILLE Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-posses...
GEORGE BATAILLE I'm not interested in being a candidate. I'm just doing other things now.
GRETCHEN BATAILLE We are grateful to the Kenan Charitable Trust for setting the stage for the School of the Arts to be...
GRETCHEN BATAILLE It's just part of the collection. So it's not of concern to us.
GRETCHEN BATAILLE The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings...
GEORGE 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 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 Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE 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 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 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 What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from ...
GEORGES BERNANOS 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 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 In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
GEORGES DANTON The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
GEORGES BERNANOS 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 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 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 Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE 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 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 Oh to be seventy again.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
GEORGES POMPIDOU The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run
GEORGES BERNANOS To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
GEORGES BRAQUE There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
GEORGES BRAQUE Truth exists; only lies are invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
GEORGES BRAQUE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry
GEORGES BRAQUE Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted.
SEAN GEORGES I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
GEORGES SIMENON The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
GEORGES CANGUILHEM The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't...
GEORGES SIMENON Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH He mostly preached in the evening, when the college
church was already shrouded in shadow. And...
GEORGES RODENBACH Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus...
GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the...
GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON It was a rough one.
SEAN GEORGES Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L...
GEORGES PEREC I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar...
GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam...
GEORGES PEREC Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU