Madeleine de Souvre Quotes

When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.

Madeleine de Souvre

• People
• World
• Good
• Believe
• High
• Hope
• Desire
• Quality
• Doubt

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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

• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Want
  • Journey

• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Why
  • Best

• Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • High
  • Always

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Done
  • English

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • High
  • City
  • Lies

• I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Time
  • Family
  • Want

• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Feel

• We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Violence

• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • People
  • Nature
  • Free

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  

  David Wenham
  • People
  • Work

• Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Power

• God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • Long
  • America
  • Humans

• I can only hope that whatever image people might have of either me or Bill, they will hold in advanced until they have an opportunity to meet us.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Hope
  • Opportunity
  • Image people

• I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Time
  • Parents

• When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • People
  • World
  • Good