Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.
Ernest Renan
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You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.
Eric Davis
Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.
Bill Goldberg
I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
Peter Capaldi
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
Kevin Kwan
If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.
Jacqueline Woodson
I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.
Debi Mazar
Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last.
Christina Rossetti
I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.
Mekhi Phifer
'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
Pamela Sargent
Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
Vaclav Havel
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.
Ernest Renan