Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

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• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
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  • Handle

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Without

• As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Movies
  • Look
  • Own

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • America
  • Words
  • Same

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Art
  • Interesting

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • God
  • Day
  • Cold

• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Parents
  • I Love
  • Llife Mine

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

  

  Jet Li
  • Art
  • Chinese

• Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fall
  • Doubt
  • Chance

• If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Real
  • Character
  • Society

• Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

  

  Kerry Greenwood

• The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Great
  • Women
  • Character