Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Best
  • Depressed

• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • Found
  • Verse

• I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Science
  • Star
  • Fiction

• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Result
  • Exist
  • Acid

• Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Wish

• Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Sin
  • Thrive
  • Tables

• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Way
  • Evil

• Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Courage
  • Minds

• The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Great
  • Done
  • Happy

• Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Growth

• This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

  

  Clark Gable
  • God
  • Women
  • Power

• Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Simple
  • Reason

• Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • History
  • Problems
  • Scientific

• I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Economy
  • Healthy

• Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.

  

  African Spir
  • Break
  • Agreements
  • Infringing

• I think a lot of rock stars take themselves too seriously. Then again, if you want to be a ‘star’ you’ve got to appear to take yourself very seriously indeed. I, unfortunately, could never do this for any length of time. Probably because of my upbringing, my feet were planted far too firmly on the ground. I found the rock star thing pretty laughable. I couldn’t take those types seriously. If I had, I would probably have got further along in the business.

  

  Jack Green T. Rex
  • Business
  • Seriously
  • Rock Star

• A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Activities

• There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Girls
  • Illusion
  • Recover