D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.

Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.

It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment.

The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

All sports for all people.

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.