Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

Jean de La Fontaine

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• To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Single
  • Kind
  • Prejudice

• I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Actor
  • Stage
  • Versatile

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Water

• It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Creating
  • Israel
  • Remarkable

• You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dress

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Free
  • You
  • Speech

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Scrabble

• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Help
  • High
  • Energy

• 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Character

• I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Life
  • Destroyed
  • Items

• I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Mom
  • Artist
  • Said

• When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • America
  • Political

• Y algo golpeaba en mi alma,fiebre o alas perdidas,y me fui haciendo solo,descifrandoaquella quemaduray escribí la primera línea vaga,vaga, sin cuerpo, pura,tonteríapura sabiduríadel que no sabe nada,y vi de prontoel cielodesgranadoy abierto.

  

  Pablo Neruda

• To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge - knowledge for leadership of transformation.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Style

• I saw and loved.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Growing
  • Peace
  • Space

• M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.

  

  Anne Carson
  • She
  • Day
  • Smart

• We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Law
  • Equal

• Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Black
  • Firsts
  • Worst

• Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine