Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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• The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Day

• The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Experience
  • You

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fans

• How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Man
  • Me
  • Glamorous

• I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Never
  • Judge

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Communication

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Government
  • Singing
  • Silence

• I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Say
  • Many
  • Nickname

• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Excited

• Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Pride
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

  

  William Alcott
  • Character
  • Action
  • Humans

• Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Equal
  • Demand
  • Wicked

• There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Quality
  • Deep
  • Personality

• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Causes
  • Perfection
  • Demand