Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Garrett Fort -
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong -
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker -
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
Adam Mansbach -
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides -
When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
Rachel Stevens
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson -
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.
Harold Urey -
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
Laura Hillenbrand -
So I just play the character, I play the lines.
Fiona Shaw
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
Eddie Marsan -
No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
Albert Einstein -
Never take yourself too seriously.
Ariana Grande -
I think only facts alone should corroborate this. In order to get the facts, we need to bring about the speedy return of the inspectors to Iraq.
Igor Ivanov -
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Steve Martin -
I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of teaching days and practically the only person who showed up was David Cunningham [Flying Lizard's main man], with all of this finished work
David Toop
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
S. M. Stirling -
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
Yann Martel -
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid -
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas