Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Alone

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Strong
  • Famous
  • Healing

• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Talent
  • New
  • Competitive

• When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• One day isn't dramatic, but that was the median. For the more severely ill, the net reduction was three days, and for those treated early, it was 2 to 3 days.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Comedian
  • Dramatic
  • Reduction

• I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Why
  • Free
  • Feels

• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Hollywood
  • Type
  • Producer

• I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Laws
  • Reigns

• In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Long Run
  • Good Action

• The friendships with women—the women I write about in the book and others—included work. I wanted to show how shared work—parallel or in collaboration—makes for a different kind of affection and intensity.

  

  Nancy K. Miller
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Friendships

• Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Situation

• I don't want to just live delivered but I want to live free.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Free
  • Delivered

• My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Trying
  • Art

• Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Conscience
  • Conviction
  • Intellect