"I belong to the 8% of the world……" — Muriel Barbery
"I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers."
—
Muriel Barbery
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery has 92 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
-
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence…
-
Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe.…
-
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending…
-
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
-
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
-
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
-
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic…
-
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
-
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of…
-
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all…
-
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much…
See all 92 quotes by Muriel Barbery »
More Apprehension Quotes
This quote is filed under Apprehension Quotes,
one of 168 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
-
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
-
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
-
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
-
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
-
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
-
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
-
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
-
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
-
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
-
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
See all 168 Apprehension Quotes »
