Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

• Passion
• Reason
• Evil
• Loss
• Pity
• Deliverance

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• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
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• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

  FKA twigs
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• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
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• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Progress
  • Helpful

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Good
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• 'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Film
  • Remade
  • Lisa

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
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• Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare. It's a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions.

  

  Joni Ernst
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• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Faith
  • Passion

• I will act now. For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

  

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• Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• -true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • True
  • Silence

• Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Evil