Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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• I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Listen
  • Get

• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Management

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

  

  Randall Park
  • Hope
  • Door
  • Boat

• I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Politics

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Die
  • Trees
  • Leaves

• So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware or conscious of their true or real mission, would want to get on or agree to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

  

  African Spir
  • War
  • States
  • Mission

• If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Hating
  • Sacrificed

• Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • History
  • Wisdom

• If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Song
  • Mom

• It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Wisdom
  • Justice