A. T. Mercier Quotes

Your eye makeup says so much about you and your style.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.

Balance is the key to a beautifully made-up face.

Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you can celebrate it.

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

I just plan on playing my best and continuing to put myself in a great position to win. I hope to win a 2nd bracelet and hopefully a WPT title.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!

Giving is Living

People hide the truth to protect those they love!

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.

The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.