Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

La fourmi n'est pas prêteuse;C'est là son moindre défaut.

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• Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Country
  • Society
  • Free

• There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Business
  • Never
  • Brand

• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Death
  • Idea
  • Skills

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Father
  • Education
  • Little

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Listening

• I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Day
  • Learning
  • One Day

• I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Thoughts
  • Chaos
  • Stand

• I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Body
  • Just
  • Stand

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Side
  • Stuck

• I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Culture

• The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • May
  • Words
  • Personality

• I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Believe
  • Science

• La fourmi n'est pas prêteuse;C'est là son moindre défaut.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Son