Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Man
  • Thought

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • God
  • Live
  • Marriage

• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Bad
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Love
  • Will

• The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Black

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time

• When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light which dispelled it for you in particular for your need and convenience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Sun

• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life

• I do not believe on giving amnesty.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • People
  • Children
  • Strong

• I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Business
  • Questions

• 'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

  

  Brian Sandoval

• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • Sensual

• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Faith

• What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Men
  • Political
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