Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les nôtres,Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.Jean de La Fontaine
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
R. J. Cutler -
Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso -
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg -
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Nana Mouskouri -
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
Jack Kirby
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
Ian Frazier -
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman -
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut -
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Walter Pater -
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Earl Warren -
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Cao Yu
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
Sam Harris -
Never wound a snake; kill it.
Harriet Tubman -
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
Kage Baker -
Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
Walter Scott -
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
Dido Armstrong -
Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.
David Suzuki
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I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.
Elena Satine -
Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.
Napoleon Hill -
It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
Raghuram Rajan -
In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.
Kevin McCarthy -
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Charles Ives -
Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les nôtres,Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.
Jean de La Fontaine