Jean Froissart Quotes

Li rois d'Engleterre et li sien, qui s'en venoient tout singlant, regardent et voient devers l'Escluse si grant quantité de vaissiaus que des mas ce sambloient droitement uns bos.

Jean Froissart

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• As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • Teach
  • I Believe

• I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Day
  • Walking

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • For Her

• I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Artist
  • Weird
  • Bit

• I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Inspiration
  • Bug

• Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Will
  • Movement
  • Center

• I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hope
  • Running
  • Single

• Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Films

• We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Lady

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Results
  • Intelligence

• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • History
  • Hope
  • Desire

• So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fear

• Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Brain

• Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Sacrifice

• You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Thinking
  • Drinking

• I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.

  

  Margarita Levieva
  • Dance
  • Bird

• One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Simple
  • Reason
  • Identity

• Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

  

  Alistair Cockburn
  • Attitude
  • Here
  • Boundaries

• I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Time
  • Parents

• Li rois d'Engleterre et li sien, qui s'en venoient tout singlant, regardent et voient devers l'Escluse si grant quantité de vaissiaus que des mas ce sambloient droitement uns bos.

  

  Jean Froissart