Pierre Corneille Quotes

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Pierre Corneille

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• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Player
  • End
  • Doing

• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Adventure

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Decisions

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Religious
  • Place
  • Rich

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Job
  • Health

• I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Best
  • Requires

• I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Arts

• Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Argue
  • Subjective

• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Original

• This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • World
  • Love
  • Better

• I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Internet
  • Security
  • Abuse

• Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Sex
  • Sin
  • Sinful

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • War
  • Faith

• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Farewell

• One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • People

• A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

  

  Andrew Denton
  • People
  • Country
  • Faith

• Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

  

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi
  • Light
  • Wise
  • Wind

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Changing

• He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  

  Pierre Corneille