Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Culture
  • Small
  • Support

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
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• I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.

  

  Halima Aden
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• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
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• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World

• This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail. Pray for me. Pray.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Alone
  • Son
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• But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
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• I did theater summer camps when I was a kid, and I enjoyed them, but they never felt quite right. But then there would always be a tiny improv workshop towards the end of camp, and I would always feel like I liked it so much better.

  

  Aidy Bryant
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• If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Dog

• I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Up
  • School
  • Family

• For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
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• You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.

  

  Donald Justice
  • Fashion
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• Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Body
  • Suffer
  • Experimenting

• I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Rest

• We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Money
  • Help
  • Schools

• The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Law
  • Christ
  • Righteousness

• One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Life
  • Wonder
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• One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • President
  • United States
  • Nuclear Weapons

• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Bitter

• Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Study
  • Persons
  • Logic

• There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Worship
  • Satan
  • Bows