Pierre Corneille Quotes

C'est n'avoir pas perdu tout votre temps à Rome,Que vous savoir ainsi défendre en galant homme:Vous avez de l'esprit, si vous n'avez du cœur.

Pierre Corneille

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• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Cold

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Soul
  • House
  • Body

• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Giving
  • Doubt
  • Suspicious

• Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

  

  Ma Jun
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Morning

• I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Teacher

• I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Politics
  • Integrity

• One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • World
  • School
  • Film

• I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Air
  • Missed
  • Swing

• The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Chinese
  • Name

• Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Organization

• My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Career

• 'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

  

  Jean Dujardin
  • Movie
  • Unique

• There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Bad

• The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Summer
  • Moon

• Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Clothes
  • Interests
  • Held

• C'est n'avoir pas perdu tout votre temps à Rome,Que vous savoir ainsi défendre en galant homme:Vous avez de l'esprit, si vous n'avez du cœur.

  

  Pierre Corneille