Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Happy

• I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Gullible

• If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Today
  • Growing

• I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Different
  • School
  • Team

• When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave me a program and guided me through my runs, showing me how to take care of myself and letting me know I should ice my legs and stretch - stuff I hadn't been doing.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • She
  • Running
  • Myself

• Whatever limits us we call Fate.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate

• Along thy wild and willow'd shore.

  

  Walter Scott
  • WIld
  • Shore

• The first idea is an imagined thing.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

  

  Athenaeus
  • Men
  • Lost

• Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

  

  Marton Csokas

• Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

  

  David Hewson
  • People

• You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Experience
  • Results

• I think abortion is murder.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Abortion

• There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Up
  • May
  • Dream

• To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.

  

  Edwin S. Shneidman
  • Fall
  • Purpose
  • Spirit

• I think it's important for service to be a part of your life instead of an option. It's awesome to make it a point to do something that's gonna make the world slightly better than you left it.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • May
  • Fall
  • Failing