Madame de Stael Quotes
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.Madame de Stael
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
Bear Grylls -
Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
Taylor Sheridan -
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann -
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence -
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci -
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
Eddie Slovik -
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
Paige Butcher -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim -
How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
Victor Ponta -
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
Floyd Abrams -
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz -
You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
Gary Lineker
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Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.
Dave Sim -
I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don't like this plate, there's another one for you.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
Maggie Nelson -
It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
Darrell Issa -
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
Madame de Stael