Pierre Corneille Quotes

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille

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• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

  

  Kanye West
  • Me
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Age
  • Know
  • Daughter

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Suffering
  • Neurosis

• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • American
  • Question

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Me
  • Justice
  • Politics

• New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Feminist

• Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Birds
  • Produces

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• Extremism of the right or the left is dangerous.

  

  Irene Dunne

• That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

  

  Alan King
  • Time
  • Great
  • Father

• I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

  

  Alexandra Roach
  • House
  • Leaving

• I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• If biological differences do exist, they cannot be wished away. However unpopular the investigation, we have to take the possibility of natural differences seriously. What is at stake is nothing less than the foundation of contemporary liberalism.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza

• My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.

  

  Dorothea Benton Frank
  • World
  • Family
  • Son

• When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

  

  Pierre Corneille