Pierre Corneille Quotes

Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments,Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise,Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.

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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Love
  • Question

• I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Nice
  • Found
  • Hiking

• Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • You
  • Front

• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Ability
  • Been

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Character
  • You
  • Strange

• You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Together

• Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Man
  • Way
  • Lazy

• If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Tongue

• Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Opinion
  • Care
  • Israel

• I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.

  

  Inara George
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Mistakes

• I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Think
  • Giving

• While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great

• Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

  

  Patanjali
  • Progress
  • Meditation

• 'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• I choose my outfits based on the shows on a particular day. If there's an edgier designer, it might be a slightly edgier outfit. I don't think it matters, but still that's how I think about it.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir

• Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Listening

• I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

  

  Taika Waititi

• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Pretty
  • Action
  • Play

• Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments,Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise,Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.

  

  Pierre Corneille