Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Play
  • Crush

• If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Sweet
  • Walk

• To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • God

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May
  • Purpose

• It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

  

  Neymar

• It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

  

  Lydia Ko

• I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

  

  Marc Wallice
  • Mother
  • Stop
  • Friend

• You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Giving
  • Bridge

• A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • World
  • History
  • Chinese

• We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

  

  Michael Bolton

• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Good
  • Power
  • Wise

• I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've grown up. Then I was rapping; now I do music, I write albums. But my distinctive voice and style, people still can't catch it. They're still asking me, "What were you saying on that song?".

  

  Keak da Sneak
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

  

  Confucius
  • Progress
  • Give Up
  • Moderate

• I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.

  

  Francisco Goldman
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Creative

• Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

  

  Stendhal
  • Happiness
  • Promise