Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • Him

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • American
  • Dream

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hand

• Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • More
  • Rejoice

• I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Music
  • Night

• Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Iron

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Taken
  • Voice
  • See

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Kiss
  • Scene
  • Consider

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Together
  • Magic

• I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Revelation
  • Appetite
  • National

• The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Time

• When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Freedom
  • Understanding
  • Shadow

• I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

  

  Chris Wood
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • May
  • Words

• I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

  

  Calvin Seerveld
  • Understanding
  • Convinced
  • Holy Spirit

• We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Understanding
  • Humans
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