Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

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• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Me
  • Sleep

• Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Effort
  • Explain
  • Theology

• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Matter

• Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Clouds
  • Heartbeat
  • Raindrops

• The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Career
  • Inspiration
  • Sound

• Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Wise

• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  

  William Gibson
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Thinking
  • Bigs
  • Steps

• I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Perspective

• Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Way
  • Sorrow
  • Master

• What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Control
  • Trust
  • Lord

• Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

  

  Stendhal
  • Miserable
  • Scoundrels
  • Crawling