Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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• When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Writing
  • Family

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Far

• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mind
  • City
  • Crazy

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Try

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Africa
  • Canada
  • Caribbean

• My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Honor
  • Find
  • Belief

• One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

  

  Jane Grey
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Death
  • Die