Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

• World
• Temptation
• Innocence
• Twins
• Obscurity
• Pierce

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Kid
  • Asthma
  • Sweater

• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Running
  • Look

• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Qualities

• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Water
  • Trust

• I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Think
  • Obvious
  • Cynical

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Done
  • Me
  • Early

• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fly

• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Acceptance

• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Good
  • Worst
  • Good Taste

• Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Men And Women

• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.

  

  Bono U2
  • Long
  • Mad

• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Success
  • Me
  • Eating

• Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Recognize
  • Somebody

• My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • World
  • Together

• Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • World
  • Remember
  • Saturday

• The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the real world. To be 'othered' within the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the outside world, existing in the margins of society for decades witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • World
  • Real
  • Society

• Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • World
  • Temptation
  • Innocence