Moliere Quotes

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Pride
  • First
  • Sin

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Silence
  • Same

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Silence

• I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

  

  Kevin Yoder
  • Important
  • History
  • Night

• Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

  

  Charles Buxton
  • Silence
  • Criticism

• 'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Book
  • History
  • Light

• Silence is more musical than any song.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Song
  • Silence

• Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

  

  Ellen Potter
  • Business
  • Book
  • Silence

• Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

  

  Budd Schulberg
  • Silence

• My hobby is silence.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Silence

• Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Doubt
  • Silence
  • Senses

• I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Why
  • Age
  • Silence

• The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Simple
  • Pain
  • Creative

• Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

  

  Michelangelo
  • Women
  • Remain
  • Chaste

• It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

  

  Luc Besson
  • People
  • Change
  • Things

• The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

  

  Moliere
  • Silence
  • Sin
  • Offence