Denis Diderot Quotes

Égaré dans une forêt immense pendant la nuit, je n’ai qu’une petite lumière pour me conduire. Survient un inconnu qui me dit : Mon ami, souffle ta bougie pour mieux trouver ton chemin. Cet inconnu est un théologien. - No VIII

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• I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Black

• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Shirts
  • Drives
  • Jackets

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Everyone is capable of everything.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Everyone
  • Capable

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
  • Wall

• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Music
  • God

• I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Know
  • Mystery
  • Not Knowing

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Believe
  • Want
  • I Believe

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Friend
  • Communication
  • Best Friend

• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Born
  • Sacrifice
  • Achievement

• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Culture
  • Style
  • Architecture

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • God
  • Always
  • Waiting

• I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • American
  • Man
  • Speak

• It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Morning

• I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Live
  • She
  • Singing

• Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Human

• I love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love cinematic music. A lot of the time, I make playlists for my characters when I act. I also make playlists for the scripts that I write.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • Business

• Égaré dans une forêt immense pendant la nuit, je n’ai qu’une petite lumière pour me conduire. Survient un inconnu qui me dit : Mon ami, souffle ta bougie pour mieux trouver ton chemin. Cet inconnu est un théologien. - No VIII

  

  Denis Diderot