Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Women
  • Playing
  • Events

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Human
  • Events
  • Extraordinary

• A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Funny
  • Happens
  • Canada

• No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Happens
  • Plan
  • Whatever

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Control
  • Events
  • Reduced

• Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.

  

  Lorde
  • Attention
  • Weird
  • Everything

• No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

  

  Doris Day
  • Up
  • Matter
  • Happens

• There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Lost
  • Artist
  • Happens

• Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Cold
  • Wind

• When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Events
  • Actions

• I know we got guys in here who can get it done, because it happens on some nights. But it doesn't happen in others. This has to start with me, because I am our top offensive player. If I can send the message about playing defense, then I'm pretty sure everyone else will follow.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Player

• My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • World
  • Hope
  • Consciousness

• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Memory

• Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Philosophy
  • Teaches
  • Misfortunes

• Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Fortune
  • Half

• I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

  

  Rumi
  • Want
  • Lover
  • Quarrels

• Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Ruslan Chagaev is a great boxer and very experienced. He has won almost all of his fights and has already been world champion. And he is a fair sportsman. That is something I like. I have a lot of respect for him.

  

  Alexander Povetkin
  • Respect
  • Champion
  • Boxer

• When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Air
  • Teach
  • Emotion

• Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

  

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