Pierre Corneille Quotes

A first impulse was never a crime.

Pierre Corneille

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• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fashion

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • New
  • Now

• I can't do any competitive sport myself!

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Myself
  • Competitive
  • Any

• Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Very

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fall

• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Religious

• 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Age
  • Baby
  • Model

• I got rhythm,I got music,I got my manWho could ask for anything more?

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music

• Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • God
  • Women

• It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Death
  • Patience

• I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

  

  Brock Yates
  • Light
  • Style
  • Exercise

• We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Notorious
  • Namesake
  • Living up

• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Fall

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • Country
  • Home

• A first impulse was never a crime.

  

  Pierre Corneille