Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Ernest Renan

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• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Small
  • Being
  • Production

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• It worked!

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

  

  Rain
  • Wind
  • Rain
  • Tangled

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • Art

• Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Children
  • May
  • Present

• We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

  

  Bob Ney
  • People
  • Moral
  • Honor

• The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Long
  • Today

• I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Hate
  • Cool
  • Hair

• A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

  

  Budd Schulberg
  • Hate
  • Boxing

• The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • People
  • Action
  • Financial

• I want to remove my hat, close my eyes,and feel the sun, warm and intermittent, on my face.

  

  William Collins
  • Eyes
  • Close
  • Warm

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Discovered

• The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Agnostic