Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

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• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hand
  • Skills
  • Balancing

• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
  • Good
  • You
  • Start

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Home
  • Memories
  • Return

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • You
  • Education

• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Stories

• That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Right
  • Frodo

• We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Talk
  • Mediated

• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Country
  • Mean

• My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

  

  Jess Row
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Society
  • Vanity