Pierre Corneille Quotes
Tous ces crimes d'État qu'on fait pour la couronne,Le ciel nous en absout alors qu'il nous la donne.Pierre Corneille
Quotes to Explore
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian -
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
Cara Delevingne -
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
Rand Paul -
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Manmohan Singh -
I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
Idina Menzel -
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
Irwin Shaw -
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
Tea Leoni -
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
Victor Ponta
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
Howard Jacobson -
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeish -
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
Anand Giridharadas -
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
Mary Beard
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Laughing a lot is really good for you, embracing your children's future and embracing your grandchildren, and not having regrets and not being bitter and not being angry.
Jerry Hall -
Every day, I have a parcel waiting for me at home because I have shopped something, as I have physically stopped going to places to shop. I don't shop from malls because the stuff there is very common. I like to be unique and different.
Krystle D'Souza -
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
Victor Hugo -
In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
Katherine Heigl -
Tous ces crimes d'État qu'on fait pour la couronne,Le ciel nous en absout alors qu'il nous la donne.
Pierre Corneille