Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes to Explore
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
Pat Boone -
I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
Kajol -
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
Earl Campbell -
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
Rachel Perry -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
Jacki Weaver
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
Nancy Roman -
It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
Sam Graves -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
Jack Youngblood -
I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
Felicity Jones
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
Tech is all about building human connections.
Padmasree Warrior -
I'm a big Stephen King fan.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham Lincoln -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian -
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.
Walter O'Brien -
I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
Francois Nars -
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.
Matthew Gray Gubler -
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere