Madame de Stael Quotes

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Running
  • Happiness
  • More

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Home
  • Happy

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • May
  • Poetry

• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Happiness

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Words
  • Photograph
  • Worth

• Every concept should have a beginning, middle and end.

  

  Ali Shirazinia
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Concept

• Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

  

  S. N. Goenka

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings