Pierre Corneille Quotes

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

Pierre Corneille

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • People
  • Good
  • Sorry

• As quoted in 'Ann Slanders' by Steve Rendall in Extra! (November/December 2002).

  

  Ann Coulter
  • December
  • November

• You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • People
  • Work

• All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Music
  • Country

• I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Dad

• I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • American
  • Song
  • Girl

• One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Long
  • Children
  • Single

• Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Bible

• It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Father
  • Son
  • Hard

• Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Doctrine
  • Attempts
  • Exterminate

• I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Beach

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

  

  Pierre Corneille