Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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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 have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Great
  • Important
  • Writing

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

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Camera

• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • World
  • Way
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• I'm on Tumblr all the time.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Tumblr

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

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

  

  Adam McKay
  • House
  • Religious
  • Speak

• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hand

• Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

  

  Sam Altman
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• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
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• You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Person
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• Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Achievement

• Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged

  

  Kai Greene
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Dream

• What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Doe
  • Rejoice
  • What Matters

• One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Chance
  • Challenges
  • Economy

• I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.

  

  Nathaniel Fick
  • Ends
  • Elements

• The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I've actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I'm just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Person

• Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.

  

  Backseat Goodbye
  • Moments
  • Enjoy
  • Youth

• Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Eye
  • Blind
  • Philosopher

• Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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  • Empty
  • Vanity