Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Ernest Renan

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• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Up
  • Home
  • Remember

• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Long
  • Future

• Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Imagination

• It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Good
  • Always

• We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Doing

• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Life
  • Profound

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • People
  • Writing
  • Remember

• There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Life
  • Different
  • Character

• As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.

  

  John Ridley
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Wish

• The current use of the National Guard is wrong... These are men who did not sign up to go occupy foreign nations.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Men

• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Military

• Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

  

  Catullus
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Care

• Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Sorrow