Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  

  Jack Black
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Chinese
  • Economic

• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wisdom
  • Bill
  • Applause

• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Greatest

• I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Relationship
  • United States

• I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time

• In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Life
  • America
  • Insurance

• Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • War
  • Science

• We made America more respected around the world, took on the mantle of leadership in the fight to protect this planet for our kids, and much, much more.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Kids
  • America

• Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Words
  • Image
  • Souls

• I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Character
  • Humanity

• Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • World
  • Heart
  • Contact