Jean Racine Quotes
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses dégrés;Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocencePasser subitement à l'extrême licence.Jean Racine
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
Yahya Jammeh -
I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
Sally Kellerman -
I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
Oliver Sim The xx -
Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg -
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
Rachel Zoe
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It's not really cool to be singled out.
Parker Posey -
And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
Barbara Castle -
I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
Edgar Meyer -
For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
H. P. Lovecraft -
As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.
Calvin Johnson -
When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
J. B. Smoove
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
Cam Gigandet -
The Katrina matter was terrible.
Pat Robertson -
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
Samuel Johnson -
The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'
Randall Jarrell -
Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
W. H. Auden
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It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
Billy Eckstine -
Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.
Robert James Ritchi -
My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
Jeffrey Skoll -
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
Rachel Cusk -
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses dégrés;Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocencePasser subitement à l'extrême licence.
Jean Racine