Moliere Quotes

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

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• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• 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 have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • War
  • Independence

• You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Humble
  • Fame

• I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Light
  • Patience

• Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Science
  • Logic

• Emmy's exquisite youth and her virginal air,Eyes and teeth in the flash of a musical smile,Come to me out of the past, and I see her thereAs I saw her once for a while.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Past
  • Eyes
  • Air

• I know that many of my supporters are disappointed. I am too. But our disappointment must be overcome by our love of country. And I say to our fellow members of the world community, let no one see this contest as a sign of American weakness. The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome.

  

  Al Gore
  • World
  • Country
  • American

• The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

  

  Charles Dickens

• if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • America
  • Death

• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Nothing

• I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • True
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Good
  • Career

• Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

  

  William Cowper
  • Home
  • Running
  • Clock

• The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Guilty

• One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

  

  David Douglass
  • Truth

• I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

  

  Moliere
  • Lies
  • Charming
  • Falling In Love