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.

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• 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
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• 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
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• 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
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Serious

• 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
  • Long
  • Me
  • Desire

• 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
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Imagination
  • Aesthetic

• Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Money

• 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
  • Important
  • She
  • Future

• 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
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• 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
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• 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.
  • World
  • Home
  • Explore

• Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Death
  • Before
  • Hardest

• Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Made

• I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.

  

  John Marshall
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Father

• I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • World
  • Youth

• You don't just need skills and talent, you also need luck.

  

  Lin Dan
  • Luck

• I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• 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
  • World
  • God