Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reading
  • Matter
  • Perception

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Never
  • Person
  • Congress

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Sister

• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Untraine

• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

  

  Ione Skye
  • People
  • Young
  • Realize

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Like
  • Habit
  • Muscle

• It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Long
  • Power
  • Party

• I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Health

• I have had moments where I've felt like, 'I'm going to feel a little guilty if I don't put the baby down for her nap today, but I really need to go to that spin class. And that's good for my health and my mental well-being, so I think the nanny can put her down for her nap, and I'm going to be OK with that.'

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Good
  • Today
  • Health

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.

  

  Joni Ernst

• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
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