Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: 'Each to the other we seem insane': Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
Warren Farrell
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.
Francesca Annis
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
Paolo Bacigalupi
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
Gabriella Wilde
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
Harold E. Varmus
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
Gal Gadot
Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
Adam Beach
Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
Naveen Jain
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
M.I.A.
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
Abu Bakr
It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.
Max Heindel
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Arthur Miller
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man’s complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.
John Cheever
my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry))
Rachel Caine
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.
Erich Heller
We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: 'Each to the other we seem insane': Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.
Jean de La Fontaine
