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

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• 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

• God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Power
  • Nature

• You can rest assured that his salary is in line with where he has brought the program in the Big East and nationally. We've provided him with a good salary, one that is competitive in the Big East and one that shows we're happy to have him as our head coach.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Coach
  • Competitive
  • Salary

• We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Why
  • Home
  • Travel

• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Memory
  • Vanity
  • Vices

• To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

  

  George Eliot
  • Deep
  • Memory
  • Present Day

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

  

  Alexandre Dumas-fils
  • Fate
  • Memory
  • Paradise