Madame de La Fayette Quotes

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Mother

• I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Great
  • Winning
  • Pleasure

• Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • World
  • Rest
  • Travel

• There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Way Out
  • Favourite Things

• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Kids

• We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • Children
  • Done

• And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Law

• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Bad

• Everyone's first thought is "These women are going to take advantage of you" or "Someone's only going to date you because you're famous." That stuff's not really an issue because that's super-easy to see through.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Women
  • Famous
  • Stuff

• If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and network," and my response to that is, "No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored." That's the thing.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • People
  • Differences
  • Break

• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • World
  • Individual
  • Management

• If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

  

  Madame de La Fayette
  • Break
  • Lovers
  • Satiety