Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

  

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• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

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• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  

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• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

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• I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

  

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• I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  

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• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

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• I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

  

  Karen Abbott
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• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

  

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• willow of crystal, a poplar of water, a pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over, tree that is firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving, advances and retreats, goes roundabout, arriving forever:

  

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• Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Night
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• Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

  

  Walter Scott
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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
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• I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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  • Revolution

• 'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'

  

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• Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

  

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  • Water
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• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
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• African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.

  

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  • Life
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• The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data.

  

  Jane Roberts

• Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Water
  • Revolution
  • Rose