Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

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• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
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• Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

  

  Lois Wyse
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• Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
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• Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
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• I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
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• It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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• Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Why
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• Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
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• I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

  

  J Mascis
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• I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.

  

  Zachary Alexander Bagans
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• Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

  

  Amanda Filipacchi
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• Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Moments
  • Evil

• Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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