Jules Verne Quotes

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • You
  • Makeup

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Growing

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Professional

• Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Earth
  • Dad
  • Background

• Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Truth

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Opinion
  • Alcohol

• I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • God
  • Men
  • Destroy

• Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Games

• When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Important
  • Person
  • Listening

• I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

  

  Alain Macklovitch

• In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Energy
  • Natural
  • Changes

• I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.

  

  Angela Johnson
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Restless

• Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Dog
  • Walking

• What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Music
  • Money
  • Interests

• We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Natural
  • Resist
  • Human Laws