Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

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• Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Working

• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Gold

• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Level
  • Waste

• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • You
  • Unique
  • Voice

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Love
  • Food
  • Cooking

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Kids
  • Advice
  • Accept

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • You
  • Way
  • Wrong

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Learn
  • Better
  • Than

• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Great
  • Real
  • Respect

• More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais
  • Great
  • Believe