Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
Quotes to Explore
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
Ian Anderson
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Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.
Ophelia Lovibond
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
Laird Barron
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
Rand Paul
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
Garth Brooks
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
Florence Kelley
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
Nancy Pickard
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I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.
Taylor Lautner
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I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
Kim Smith
