Joseph de Maistre Quotes

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

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• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • You
  • Working

• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Job
  • Man
  • Out

• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Violence

• For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Present

• When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Family
  • Jesus
  • Emotional

• I was always a big fan of 'Pippin' and 'Godspell,' even before I heard 'Meadowlark.'

  

  Alice Ripley

• Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Work
  • Training

• I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Important

• The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

  

  Lloyd Dorfman
  • Business
  • Waiting

• I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Team
  • Motivated

• It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Done
  • Art
  • Science

• I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• A lot of people think right-wingers aren't capable of being amusing at all. Not true. Mussolini looked hilarious swinging from that lamppost.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • True
  • Hilarious

• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  

  William Cowper
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Failing

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

  

  Brett Ratner

• The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

  

  George Lois
  • Men
  • Art
  • History

• The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Men
  • Women
  • To Be