Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

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• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

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• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

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• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

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• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

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• I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
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• It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

  

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• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

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• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

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• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  

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• In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

  

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• The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

  

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• Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

  

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• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

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• Music can tear me up inside.

  

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• When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.

  

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• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

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• After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.

  

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• For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

  

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• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

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• I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.

  

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• If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

  

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  • Anger
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• Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

  

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  • Should

• Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Victory
  • Weakness