Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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• If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • May
  • You
  • Stop

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Never

• Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Growth
  • Inspired

• It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Security

• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Tough

• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Eye

• Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Two

• If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Lazy

• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War

• Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Growing

• If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

  

  Benjamin Tucker

• Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Wise

• The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sun

• I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Important
  • She
  • Father

• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
  • Mom
  • Picture

• Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

  

  Charles Kuralt
  • Life
  • Live
  • Romantic

• On one level, this was the biggest challenge out there - to make a film of this scope, in this amount of time, and to go into a different genre, essentially. Yes, I've done a vampire film, but 'Eclipse' is a very different kind of thing. This is a romantic story, which swings from a darker, more abject feeling to very pure romantic scenes.

  

  David Slade
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais