Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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• We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Change

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goals

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Design
  • Inspired
  • Difference

• My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Career
  • Support

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Weak
  • Your
  • Self-Esteem

• I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Mother
  • Play

• I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Always
  • Guess
  • Theatrical

• When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Nice

• Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibility bitch hoe slut thot saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • Destiny
  • Warrior

• My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Wine
  • Mood

• My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

  

  Amy Weber
  • Job
  • Drama
  • Shoes

• Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Girl
  • Nice

• Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Love
  • Always
  • Unconditional

• I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

  

  Antoine Fuqua

• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • World
  • Easy
  • Harmony

• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • House
  • Running
  • Should