Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• I would love to work with Matt Damon.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Future

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dad

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Think
  • Law
  • Stand

• I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Hurt

• Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Small

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • You
  • Conflict

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Political
  • Peace

• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Stop
  • Doubt
  • Results

• I never wanted to be a playwright.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Playwright

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Why
  • Fate

• We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Present

• If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Strength
  • Leaders
  • Built

• Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

  

  Alexandre Dumas-fils
  • Fate
  • Memory
  • Paradise