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.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
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• I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Water

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

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Water

• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  

  Lao Tzu
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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
  • Life
  • American
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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
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

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

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Human
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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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  • Water
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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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• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Rose

• 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
  • Water
  • Procrastination

• 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
  • Hope
  • Morning
  • Tears

• I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.

  

  Bryson Tiller
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• Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.

  

  Peter Guber
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• I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Thinking
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• The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

  

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

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Water
  • Revolution
  • Rose