Moliere Quotes

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Moliere

• Esteem
• Preference
• Ceases

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• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Single
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• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
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• Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Night
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• I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Remember
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• I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero...

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Football
  • Cowboy

• I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Family
  • Hate
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• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Identity

• We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • World
  • Study
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• Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Silence
  • Hero

• I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Heart
  • Person
  • Animal

• Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

  

  Plutarch
  • Curiosity
  • Attached
  • Praters

• Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Lead

• I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Drive
  • Horses
  • Kanan

• Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Believe
  • Accomplish
  • Elimination

• Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Watch
  • Purity
  • Ceases

• A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

  

  Abel Stevens
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Winning

• Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

  

  Moliere
  • Esteem
  • Preference
  • Ceases