Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Want
  • Career

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Research

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • True
  • Lies
  • Tell

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Message

• There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Inspired

• Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Perfect

• From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Adventure

• I'm bad; I wear trainers with everything: with a dress, skirts, all of that.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Bad
  • Everything
  • Dress

• The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • College
  • Senior

• The basic issue about being too close is being closer than you're comfortable with. For some people, even slightly close is too much and for other people being enormously close is great.

  

  Arthur Aron
  • Being
  • Issue
  • Closer

• In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • World
  • Library
  • Order