Pierre Corneille Quotes

On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.

Pierre Corneille

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Tough

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Author
  • Election

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Drummer

• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Woman

• People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Advantage
  • Reach
  • Fought

• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Thug

• Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one is exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value

• My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Thinking

• ' It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock
  • Tea

• When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

  

  Rumi
  • Want
  • You
  • Sleep

• I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Long
  • Scene
  • Harder

• I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Games
  • Statistics

• On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.

  

  Pierre Corneille