Pierre Corneille Quotes

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Pierre Corneille

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• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Find
  • Theater

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • House
  • Really
  • Many

• I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Ridiculous
  • Drive
  • Fast

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • Like
  • Liberal

• New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
  • Thought

• Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Want
  • Way
  • Clarity

• The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Together
  • Challenge
  • Farmer

• I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Man
  • Past
  • Purpose

• I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Home
  • Food

• I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Darkness

• If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Help
  • You
  • Got

• Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Blessed

• William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • True
  • Wish

• It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fun

• When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Up

• Hawkey - Hawkey Mr. Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, close friend of Turner - come here - come here! Look at this thunderstorm! Isn't it grand? - Isn't it wonderful? - Isn't it sublime?. .There, Hawkey; in two years you will see this again, and call it 'Hannibal Crossing the Alps'.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Friend

• I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have my parents that help me and my friends that are really great accountability partners to me.

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Great
  • God
  • Friends

• It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Song
  • Moments

• Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

  

  Pierre Corneille