Pierre Corneille Quotes

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

Pierre Corneille

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Risk
  • Impact
  • Debt

• China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Years
  • Born

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• I'm so happy when I'm working.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Working

• I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Home

• It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • You
  • Down
  • Reach

• Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Treat

• I remember when the family album came out, people would just knock on our door because they thought they knew us, and that, of course, is one of the great hazards.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Clothes to me aren’t sexy. Like, a dress isn’t sexy. Maybe the girl who wears it is sexy.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Heart

• I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Real
  • Character
  • True

• I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

  

  Paul Verlaine

• It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People
  • American
  • Powerful

• I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

  

  David Wenham

• Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Fate

• I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

  

  Jazmine Sullivan
  • Good
  • Cool

• I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go through that experience again. It's really, really awful.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Experience
  • Rip

• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

  

  Lisa See
  • Up
  • High
  • Boy

• In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the table. My husband's family will get into major politics, and it's not an aggressive thing. It's so interesting and you learn so much, whether it's Right or Left, and that to me has been really great.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Great
  • Family
  • Political

• He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

  

  Pierre Corneille