Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Nate Diaz -
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
Dan Brown -
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter -
Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
Val Kilmer -
Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
Lana Parrilla -
My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
Kaia Gerber -
He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
Jack Vance -
It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
R. C. Sproul -
I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.
Joe Gibbs
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
Lou Holtz -
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Oscar Wilde -
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Oscar Wilde -
I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.
Questlove -
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
Robert Frost
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There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
Gale Sayers -
I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.
Richard Simmons -
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.
Daniel Cawdry -
Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
Eugene O'Neill -
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas