Paul Claudel Quotes

In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

Paul Claudel

• May
• Champagne

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• Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • May
  • Home

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • May
  • Moving

• I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Never
  • Students

• Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Face
  • Confident
  • Hindutva

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Words
  • Action

• You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• Whenever anybody says what you do isn't good, it's always unflattering and makes me feel uncomfortable. But when the person who's in charge of the United States of America says, 'Not good,' I'm like, 'Oh.' It's a little unflattering.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Good
  • America

• Andre Recke and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff.

  

  Hilary Duff
  • Good
  • Music
  • Age

• In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • May
  • Champagne