Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Business
  • Trouble

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Past
  • Trouble
  • Emotions

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Feel
  • Born
  • Trouble

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Trouble

• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Bear

• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Looks

• Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Men
  • Action
  • Son

• If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Time
  • Important
  • Looks

• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Believe
  • America
  • House

• You have to look closely

  

  Na Taejoo
  • Long
  • Looks
  • Lovable

• It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • World
  • Looks
  • Roles

• The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Painting
  • Looks

• If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Looks
  • Being Ignored

• When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

  

  Ashot Nadanian
  • Art
  • Winning
  • Trouble

• If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Trouble
  • Minds
  • Promises

• I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Over and over, we begin again.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Begin Again
  • Bare Trees

• Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking.

  

  Weegee
  • Good
  • Live
  • Home

• Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Looks
  • Trouble
  • Priests