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'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

• 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

• 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 fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

  

  Livy

• Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

  

  John Adams
  • Free
  • Catholic

• Just like a bolt of thunder and a streak of heat Leo covered Jo Jo with all four feet Jo Jo was screamin' with tears in his eyes Said,' Please Mr. Leo, I apologize'

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.

  

  Anohni
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Environment

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

  

  John Hume
  • Time
  • History
  • Question

• It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Sympathy
  • Property
  • Discovered

• He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  

  Pierre Corneille