Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

• Mankind
• Forty
• Misanthrope

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• You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Emotions
  • Work Hard

• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Terrible
  • Meetings

• You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

  

  Adam Green
  • May
  • Football
  • Idea

• I used to be a bitch. I met her at Hooters. She didn't have big boobs, but she could turn her head in a circle just like an owl. (p. 2).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • She
  • Owl

• Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Falling In Love

• A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

  

  Oliver Hardy
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Joy

• I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.

  

  Jeffrey DeMunn
  • Problem
  • Fine
  • Backstory

• The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Interest
  • Genius
  • System

• Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

  

  John McCrae
  • Rain
  • Bird
  • Restless

• In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Slave
  • First Place

• The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Crime

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Observation

• All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Play

• The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Company
  • Microsoft
  • Corbis

• Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

  

  Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di
  • Happiness
  • Obedience
  • Opposition

• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • World
  • Friend
  • Study

• All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Kind

• Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Leaders

• Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Mankind
  • Forty
  • Misanthrope