Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• 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's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.

  

  Yuna
  • Want
  • Challenges
  • Fake

• I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Piano
  • Started
  • Ukulele

• 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

• If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.

  

  Young Thug
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Girlfriend

• If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • You

• Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • World
  • America
  • Nation

• I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Good
  • Today
  • Day

• 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

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Cinema
  • Curious

• Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Love
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Twitter

• I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

  

  George Strait
  • Up

• Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Son
  • Eye
  • Parent

• If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Son

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Up
  • Home
  • Crying

• Laissez dire les sots: le savoir a son prix.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Son