Pierre Corneille Quotes
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille
Quotes to Explore
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
Adam Grant
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
Victoria Osteen
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
Daniel Baldwin
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
Halldor Laxness
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
Webb Simpson
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
J. C. Ryle
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
Edmund Morgan
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
Val Kilmer
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
Felix Dennis
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
Oliver E. Williamson
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We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.
Kevin DeYoung
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If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.
Anthony Doerr
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Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.
Hannah Arendt
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
Elizabeth Wein
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An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille
