Jean Rostand Quotes

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Jean Rostand

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Being
  • Musicians
  • Intensity

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I'm much more shy than most of my family.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Family
  • Most
  • Shy

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Country
  • Trying

• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Change
  • Opinion

• I never had planned for my life and my career.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• Fame is a very strange animal.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Fame

• It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • People
  • Understand
  • Accept

• If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • You
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Good
  • Man

• I got sober, and I got happy again.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Happy
  • Got
  • Sober

• If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Start

• Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Time

• The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

  

  Kevin Heffernan
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because we would include a lot of horrible material and would need a fresh pespective. They would look at us and say, 'Are you out of your minds? You can't include that!'

  

  Alex Gibney
  • People
  • Dark
  • Cutting

• I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Water
  • Doubt

• We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

  

  Jean Rostand