Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Ernest Renan

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Remarkable

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Figure
  • Strongly

• I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Question

• There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and the American people were behind him in huge numbers.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • American

• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  

  Anna Seward
  • Time
  • Education
  • Attention

• Besides regular exercising, one should also take care of his or her daily habits such as adequate sleep and drinking lots of water.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Water
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Dark

• I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Believe
  • Women

• I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.

  

  Laurie Graham

• The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• Those who can bear all can dare all.

  

  Luc de Clapiers

• When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Notes
  • Guitarist
  • Melodic Things

• Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • May
  • Science

• Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

  

  T. J. Jagodowski
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Environment

• Again; in the tenth chapter of Deuteronomy we have the expression, “For Jehovah your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords.”[318] And numerous are the Scriptural assertions that Jehovah is highly exalted above all gods, to be feared above all gods, and so on. If, then. He executed judgment upon the gods of Egypt, they must have been living beings: if He is contrasted with other gods, they must be real existences.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Expression
  • Chapter
  • Deuteronomy

• Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

  

  Vance Havner
  • God
  • Christian
  • Lord

• He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • God
  • Men
  • May