Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff -
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
Larry King -
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks -
Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
Dan Jenkins -
Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
Cameron Russell -
Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
Daniel Cudmore -
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
Mara Liasson -
I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
G. Willow Wilson -
I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
Salma Hayek -
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Lajos Kossuth -
I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
Padgett Powell
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Bear Grylls -
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
Orrin Hatch -
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
Sade Adu -
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
Edmund White -
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde -
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
William Cowper
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
Ma Jun -
And I awoke..Only to find my arms were empty..Though this night it seems that you were with me
Dallas Michael John Albert Green Alexisonfire -
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
Madeleine Albright -
Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
Ippy Aiona -
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas