Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
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• I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Remember
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  • Mom

• Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Trying
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• I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Chance
  • Prices
  • Private Sector

• Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Crazy

• Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Free
  • Political
  • Food

• Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Design
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  • Arts

• I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

  

  William Standish Knowles
  • Fall
  • Color
  • Forget

• Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Lead

• Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • Talent
  • Achievement

• When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Toil

• The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Question
  • Being

• Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Esteem
  • Merit
  • Eminence