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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
Gail Porter -
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving -
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
Olive Schreiner -
This agreement sends a message that intrusive and deceptive practices will not be tolerated.
Eliot Spitzer
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What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.
John Greenleaf Whittier -
We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!
Nick Lachey -
Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
Taissa Farmiga -
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