Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

La mort ne surprend point le sage:Il est toujours prêt à partir.

Jean de La Fontaine

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• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
  • School
  • Black
  • Law

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Taken
  • King
  • Only

• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Peace

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Think
  • Support

• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Meaning

• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Between
  • Civil War

• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mean
  • Old
  • Masters

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • People
  • Friends
  • Nature

• Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Love
  • Job

• I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Work
  • Game
  • Simple

• It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Paris

• I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Real
  • Enemy

• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  

  Waldemar Kaempffert
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Church

• Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Together
  • Past

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'

  

  Emo Philips
  • She
  • Father
  • Girlfriend

• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Time
  • Present
  • Birthday

• La mort ne surprend point le sage:Il est toujours prêt à partir.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine