Francois Rabelais Quotes

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Fate
  • Situation
  • Conscious

• To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Mad

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Party
  • King

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Energy
  • Unique

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Myself

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• Many are called but few get up.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Up
  • Motivational
  • Few

• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Up
  • Art
  • Soul

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Birthday

• Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Firsts

• For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • You
  • Decisions

• We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

  

  Francois Rabelais
  • Long
  • Desire