Ernest Dimnet Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

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• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Different
  • Beauty
  • Win

• 'They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.' She rolled her eyes. 'You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Society

• Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Audience
  • Response
  • Crucial

• Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Fear

• My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Needs

• I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

  

  Lisa See
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Fight

• When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a poet writer did everything all at once. I would write poetry, and while writing poetry I would also write work in the world - if I could get into the world.

  

  W. S. Di Piero
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Up
  • House
  • Wall

• God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • God
  • Heart

• Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Congress
  • Trade

• I take every possible side.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Sides

• As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Work
  • Homeland
  • Desks

• We need new stories, but I am looking forward to The Dark Crystal.

  

  Hale Appleman
  • Stories
  • The Dark Crystal

• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  

  Benjamin Harvey Hill
  • Friend
  • Christian
  • Soldier

• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • People
  • Heart
  • Taken

• We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

  

  Joyce Grenfell
  • Happiness
  • Memories
  • Lose

• Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Life is
  • Lessons
  • Reward