Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
Ernest Renan
Quotes to Explore
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
Rani Mukerji
I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
Walton Goggins
In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
Fernando Botero
All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
Imtiaz Ali
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
Nancy Pelosi
I hold that if companies are attacked simply because they are big then an attack on efficiency must be a corollary of that attack. If we penalize efficiency, how can we as a nation compete in the economy of the world at large?
Alfred P. Sloan
First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3 (per year).
Bill Gates
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
Aldo Leopold
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
Matt Taibbi
The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
Jerome Powell
