Pierre Corneille Quotes
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.Pierre Corneille
Quotes to Explore
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
T Bone Burnett -
The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
J. Irwin Miller -
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver -
In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
J. D. Vance -
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
Kamala Harris
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
Aaron Neville -
False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
Fabrizio Moreira -
It's later than it's ever been.
Flip Wilson -
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney -
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
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We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.
Sam Harris -
I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.
Lucy Dacus -
If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
Christopher Rouse -
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
Eleanor Catton -
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
David Allan Coe
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I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.
Christine Pelosi -
Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
Diane Ackerman -
Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.
Susannah Cahalan -
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin -
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy -
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille