Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

Jean de la Bruyere

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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Live
  • Space
  • Saying

• Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Talk

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Song
  • Years
  • Popular

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Day

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Truth

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Beginning
  • Born
  • Depression

• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Family
  • Best
  • Share

• The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Great
  • Know

• I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Want
  • Travel

• The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Think
  • Legacy
  • Determined

• Good scripts are hard to find.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Find
  • Hard

• You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Relationships

• When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • World
  • Earth
  • Air

• Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Fun
  • Books
  • Hearing

• If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.

  

  Bono U2
  • True
  • Rock
  • Star

• Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere