Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
Lady Gaga -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher -
I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
Gary Johnson
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. Skinner -
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow -
Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
Madhur Mittal -
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. Pritzker -
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass -
People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
F. L. Lucas -
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
You can't build a society without law.
Naftali Bennett -
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Larry Wall -
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
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I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
Kurtis Blow -
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde -
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein -
Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
M. F. K. Fisher -
It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.
Carolee Schneemann -
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas