Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Ernest Renan

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• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Create

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Street
  • Route
  • Weirdo

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Africa
  • Belong
  • South Africa

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Quality

• Negative politics have always been around.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Negative

• Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• 'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • People
  • Deep

• Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

  

  Leonard Cohen

• Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • People
  • Eyes

• Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Competition
  • Categories
  • Permit

• Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I'm not a movie star, but I've been an actress forever, and the first time I went on a date with my husband, he said to me, 'So I hear you're an actress. I've never seen anything you've done.' We were like, oh gosh, 21 when I met him, and I laughed, because I'd done 'Life Goes On,' and 'Christy,' and I mean, I'd been working forever.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Death is a reality, but life is a reality also. You got to live at this time in your life like you've never lived before. And therefore you've got to find those values in your life that fulfill what you need to do. Now, what is it you need to do?

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Death
  • Greatness
  • Nations