Pierre Corneille Quotes

Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes:Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Simple
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Over

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Sun

• The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • Tax
  • Spend

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Promise

• I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Think
  • Day
  • Audience

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Technology

• After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Money
  • Truth

• Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • True
  • Black
  • Fate

• I respectfully, and indeed diffidently, dissent.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

  

  David Hockney

• A friend is, as it were, a second self.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Friend

• I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Wish

• What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery-beware of enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. (41).

  

  Epictetus
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes:Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.

  

  Pierre Corneille