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

• 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

• 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 was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • War
  • Mistake

• It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Interesting
  • Optimistic

• If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Stories

• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Pleasure
  • Fruit
  • Promised

• Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the 'elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all 'bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes).

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Elements
  • Bodies
  • Sensations

• There's depth in my comedy.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Comedy
  • Depth

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

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais