Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Service

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
  • Cold

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Lonely

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Country
  • Career

• Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • History
  • Fall
  • Gold

• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • People
  • Happy
  • Gold

• With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • War
  • True
  • Help

• Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality
  • Cold

• No worse than a bad cold.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Bad
  • Cold

• In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • May
  • Fall

• For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Children
  • House
  • Words

• All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Cold

• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Heart
  • Cold
  • Ecstasy

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Business
  • Best
  • Loyalty

• Only once in Chopin's music is there a direct reference to Bach, and that is, appropriately, at the beginning of his only educational work, the two sets of Etudes, Op. 10 and 25, and the three Nouvelles Etudes for Moscheles. In the first Etude, Op. 10, in C major, we find a modernized version of the Prelude no. 1 of the Well-Tempered Keyboard...

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Work
  • Music
  • Beginning

• A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Different
  • May
  • Character

• The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Cold
  • Gold
  • Threat