Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

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  Victor Hugo
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• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Life
  • Great
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• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
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• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Live
  • Wall
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• I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • World
  • Live
  • Love

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Who

• My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Live
  • Women
  • Professional

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me.

  

  Young Thug
  • People
  • Live
  • Business

• I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Live
  • Want

• People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dying

• We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Best

• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dreams

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Living
  • Wishes

• He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Smile
  • Stuff
  • Skins

• My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Friend

• I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Up

• I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • People
  • Political
  • Reality

• It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Live
  • Giving
  • Smile