Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
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Le duc imita bientôt avec Bande-au-ciel la petite infamie de son ancien ami et il paria, quoique le vit fût énorme, d'avaler trois bouteilles de vin de sens froid pendant qu'on l'enculerait.
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Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
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When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
