Pierre Trudeau Quotes

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

Pierre Trudeau

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hand
  • Skills
  • Balancing

• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Problems
  • Lifestyle
  • Active

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I invested all my money in debt.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Invested

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Iran
  • West

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Up
  • Home
  • Girl

• Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Truth

• We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.

  

  David Grinspoon

• Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Journey

• Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Great
  • Travel

• What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Nature
  • Travel