Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Nicolas Malebranche

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• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Family
  • Think
  • Me

• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Law
  • Going

• There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Mind
  • Write
  • Something

• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • People
  • Important
  • Travel

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Communication

• I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Work

• I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Earth
  • Alone

• The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Supernatural

• If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Art

• As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Body