Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes to Explore
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
Garry Shandling -
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Candice Bergen -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
Candy Crowley -
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith -
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
Laini Taylor -
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama -
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
Laura Prepon -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos -
We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
Oswald Chambers -
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
Quintus Curtius Rufus -
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.
Danny Elfman -
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere