Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Person
  • Most

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Faith

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Want
  • Faith

• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Soul
  • Culture

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Perfect
  • Doing
  • Decisions

• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Voice
  • Humble
  • Artists

• It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • End
  • Successful

• On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

  

  Fareed Zakaria

• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spring

• Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Live
  • Money
  • Science

• The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Children
  • Today
  • Childhood

• I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Hurt

• Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

  

  Billy Martin Good Charlotte

• Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Violence

• Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • Woman
  • Mathematician
  • Swear

• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Wife