Moliere Quotes

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Moliere

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• Know
• Desire
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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
  • Know
  • Alone

• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Want
  • Career
  • Kind

• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Want
  • Know
  • Passion

• I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Support
  • Decisions

• Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Want
  • Audience

• The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Sad
  • Leader

• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Want
  • Movies

• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Think

• Know or listen to those who know.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Know
  • Motivational
  • Listen

• I naturally want to be provocative.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Want
  • Naturally
  • Provocative

• I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Know
  • Theater

• I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Know
  • Die
  • Politics

• Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Know
  • Sand
  • Dubai

• I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Living
  • Worst

• As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!

  

  Gareth Gates
  • You
  • Know
  • Band

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Desire
  • Equivalent

• I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

  

  Michael Birch
  • Want
  • Running
  • Ambition

• The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Equal
  • Championship

• At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Winning
  • Fortunate
  • Temple

• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

  

  Moliere
  • Want
  • Know
  • Desire