Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.Ernest Renan
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
Aaron Lazar -
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer -
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince -
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
Irene Rosenfeld -
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Olafur Eliasson -
I believe that women should be treated just like men.
RaeLynn -
My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
J. J. Watt -
I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.
Camille Paglia -
Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.
Aberjhani
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Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
Jason Alexander -
'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.
David Leitch -
A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.
Brian Celio -
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
Deborah Norville -
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
Ellen G. White -
I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.
Darryl Glenn
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Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains.
Johan Rockstrom -
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
B. F. Skinner -
The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.
John Grant -
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
Donald Miller -
How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
Rene Descartes -
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest Renan