Madeleine de Scudery Quotes

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Years

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Today
  • Very

• I'm not really a pianist.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Really
  • Pianist

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Amazing
  • Dancer
  • Maddie Ziegler

• We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Race

• What does dating mean?

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Dating

• I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • House

• If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Important
  • Workout

• Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

  

  Angie Everhart

• There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

  

  Louis Leakey
  • Art

• There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Culture
  • Literature

• I loved talking to Sam Hodges. He was always very interesting, and I felt like I learned something every time I talked to him. I thought he was a fascinating man - maybe tough to work for, but he knew his business. He was extremely intelligent and fun to talk to.

  

  John Young
  • Fun
  • Loved
  • Learned

• I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Error
  • Conclusion

• Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Problem
  • Virtue

• There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • World
  • Always
  • Virtue

• Just remember when temptation comes your way that a boy will drink beyond his means and a man will know when he’s had enough.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Remember
  • Way
  • Temptation

• The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

  

  Madeleine de Scudery
  • Virtue
  • Temptation
  • Monument