Paul Valery Quotes

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Should
  • Writer
  • Vulgar

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Imagination

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Society
  • Man

• As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Age
  • Gold
  • Rules

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Friend
  • Myself
  • Best

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sea

• It's no use crying over spilt summits.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Use
  • Crying
  • Over

• If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Success
  • College
  • Everything

• I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Future
  • Past
  • Question

• The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Valiant
  • Faintherted

• No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Kitchen
  • Chaos

• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  

  Paul Valery
  • Future