Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

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• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
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• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
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• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Color

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Men
  • Future
  • Man

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Me

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• Short cuts make long delays.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Short
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• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Power
  • Rest

• The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Celebrity
  • Despair
  • Lindsay Lohan

• Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop, does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Control

• At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Life
  • Why
  • Success

• Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

  

  Alexandre Dumas-fils
  • Evil
  • Pride
  • Despair