Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Jean de la Bruyere

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Alcohol

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Working
  • Modeling

• Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Believe
  • American
  • Gun

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Pictures
  • Most
  • Progressive

• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Moment

• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Life
  • Quality

• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Das wahrhaft Schöne, Große und Erhabene, so wie es uns in Erstaunen und Verwunderung setzt, überrascht uns doch nicht als etwas Fremdes, Unerhörtes und Niegesehenes, sondern unser eigenstes Wesen wird uns in solchen Augenblicken klar, unsre tiefsten Erinnerungen werden erweckt, und unsre nächsten Empfindungen lebendig gemacht.

  

  Ludwig Tieck

• Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Men
  • She

• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • May