Pierre Corneille Quotes

Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.

Pierre Corneille

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• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Health
  • Day

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Write

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Getting
  • Awards
  • Presents

• My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Years

• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Love
  • Husband
  • Emphasis

• While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Power
  • Growing

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • NATO

• I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Going

• I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Always
  • Awkward
  • Recognizes

• While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Down
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Wish

• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power

• Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • God
  • Guy
  • Champion

• Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Choices
  • Conflict

• In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • World
  • Important
  • Priorities

• I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Person
  • Stronger
  • Hurts

• Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Words

• Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.

  

  Pierre Corneille