Pierre Corneille Quotes

L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.

Pierre Corneille

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Love
  • Chance

• Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Deep
  • Things

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Women
  • Education
  • Best

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Gay
  • Fat

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • Together
  • Parents

• While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Attention
  • Growing Up
  • Actress

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

  

  David Wenham
  • Father
  • Theatre
  • Ambition

• When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Ambition
  • Films
  • Gay-Themed

• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Civilization

• L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Ambition