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
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Salman Rushdie -
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Nan Fairbrother -
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 -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer -
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 -
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
Kate Winslet -
'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
Gary Sherman
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah -
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 -
Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
Taylor Sheridan -
No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.
Oprah Winfrey -
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett -
Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
Felicity Jones
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
Barack Obama -
My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
Vera Wang -
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
Maya Angelou -
Oh, God, will you SHUT UP! GODDAMMIT, WILL YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKIN' MOUTH! YOU'RE HIS WHORE! OH! OHHHH!
Sam Kinison -
The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast audience.
Stephanie Young Hwang -
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