Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Faith

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Audience

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Voice
  • Reach
  • Social Media

• When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • College
  • Day
  • Ambition

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Powerful
  • Wall
  • Goals

• It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Write
  • Serve
  • Skeletons

• I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Know
  • Always
  • Jokes

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Music
  • Comedy

• I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

  

  Darren Star
  • Hope
  • City
  • Amazing

• I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Together
  • Health
  • Car

• But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Nature
  • Lies

• Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Serious
  • Ambition
  • Stupidity