Madame de Stael Quotes

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Madame de Stael

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Me
  • Stop

• There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Game
  • Judgment
  • Excitement

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I was a little confused as a kid because I grew up with my mom, and my mom is black. So, I was cultured in a very 'black' way. But when I go to school, I'm getting called 'white.' They would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn't understand. I just knew I saw people of all different shades, and I was light. Now, I'm in a much bigger world.

  

  Rihanna
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Believe

• It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Money

• Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Direction

• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Men
  • Famous