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

• 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

• 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

• It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

  

  Leslie Charteris
  • Lazy

• Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • World

• ....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Nature

• If you can do a part and not have the acting show.

  

  James Stewart

• Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!

  

  John Muir
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Heart

• The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • American

• Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• 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