Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • End
  • Building

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Political
  • Air

• The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Perfect
  • Revolution
  • Look

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Government
  • Like
  • Find

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Organization
  • Clear
  • Only

• Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Judge

• Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Respect

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.

  

  Oliver Cromwell

• His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Father
  • Green
  • Blue

• The master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: 'When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Taken
  • Moon

• I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • People

• We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

  

  James Gleick
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Habit

• This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual

• ‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Changes
  • Journalism
  • Physics

• The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Society
  • Evil
  • Exists

• 'Through sickness and through health' sounds so simple on your wedding day, but in reality, they become significant words that are a huge responsibility and show true character to navigate.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Character
  • True
  • Reality

• Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Society
  • Class
  • Former