Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • She
  • Small
  • Dad

• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Give

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Small
  • Goal
  • Movies

• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Safety

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Technology
  • Need
  • Big

• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Action
  • Lost
  • Path

• I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Single
  • Learned

• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Happen
  • WIld

• I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Work
  • American
  • Air

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• I'm a Gemini, very spontaneous.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • Gemini

• Chosing to stay in the moment, is choosing to be free from fear.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Fear
  • Moments

• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Free
  • Faith

• Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Forgiveness

• The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Alone