Denis Diderot Quotes

Il y a un peu de testicule au fond de nos sentiments les plus sublimes et de notre tendresse la plus épurée.

Denis Diderot

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • She
  • Mom
  • Best

• I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Me
  • Hurt

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Run

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Done
  • Proud

• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Past
  • Myself
  • Worry

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • May
  • Cool

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Art
  • May

• Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Up
  • Children
  • You

• Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Done
  • Period
  • Information

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• I was bitten by an octopus.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Octopus
  • Bitten

• The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Freedom

• Then came a rather surreal exchange about Joy Division T-shirts, with us proudly proclaiming we did not sell merchandise because we didn’t believe in self-promotion of any kind, preferring to let the music speak for itself. ‘Rubbish,’ boomed Scotty. ‘How come wherever I go I see Joy Division and New Order T-shirts, worn and for sale, eh?’ Now, we had no idea where he was going to see these things, but we were all speechless anyway. He continued, ‘I don’t believe you, and will be fining you accordingly.’ So we would get fined £10,000 for not doing our own T-shirts.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Music
  • Proclaiming
  • Self-promotion

• I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Nature
  • Mountain
  • Lonely

• Il y a un peu de testicule au fond de nos sentiments les plus sublimes et de notre tendresse la plus épurée.

  

  Denis Diderot