Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Ernest Renan

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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
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• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
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• My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

  

  Ian McShane
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• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
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  • Ride

• I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • War
  • Lost
  • Friend

• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • TV

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
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• If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

  

  Larry David
  • Would
  • Miserable
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• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.

  

  Randy Pausch

• 'For even in hell, I still have faith to one day be free with my father at the gates but make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takesto be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate'

  

  Kid Cudi
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• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Serious

• I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • World

• As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Children
  • Heart

• I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Real
  • Helping
  • Belief

• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Right
  • Prove
  • Majority

• If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.

  

  Geoffrey Gorer
  • Suffering
  • Mourning
  • Outlet

• You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Suffering
  • Facts
  • Prove