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
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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 grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
James Patterson
Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
W. S. Gilbert
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
Marvin J. Ashton
I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
Jack Roy
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