Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I have the strange ability to shut things out.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Strange

• There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Medication

• My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• The threats to privacy in America – from our own government – seem to never end. Does Congress really think they can just stick an ‘oh-by-the-way’ provision in an obscure piece of legislation directing the FAA to clear the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our neighborhoods, and have no one notice?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • America
  • Fly

• If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Forever

• I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Hope
  • Energy

• Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Black
  • Doubt

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Distance

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!

  

  Britney Spears

• This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Country
  • Taken

• After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Writing
  • School
  • College

• I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

  

  Doris Lessing

• When I was 22, I was having a ball!

  

  Jennifer Aniston

• Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Life
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Movies
  • Talking
  • TV Shows

• Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Long
  • Values
  • Personal

• We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

  

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Wisdom
  • Cannot
  • Profit