Pierre Corneille Quotes

L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.

Pierre Corneille

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Choice
  • Content
  • Blessings

• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Me
  • Like
  • Feel

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Winning
  • Competition
  • Tough

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • New
  • Choose
  • Walk

• Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Like
  • Read

• I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • China
  • Communist

• When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • High
  • Want
  • Always

• Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Hunger

• As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

  

  Fred Kavli
  • Science
  • Imagine
  • Benefits

• Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Always
  • Innovation
  • Being

• Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

  

  Mickey Rooney
  • Stories
  • Sentence
  • Happily

• I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

  

  Anna Akana
  • Up
  • Time

• I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Writing
  • May

• L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.

  

  Pierre Corneille