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
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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
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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.

  

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

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
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• The first time I had sex, I was scared I got the girl pregnant. And that was despite the fact we were safe. Luckily, we were fine. I would never risk not wearing a condom, it’s too much of a risk. If you’re not ready for a child, then don’t risk it.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
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• Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • God
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• I remember being in the same position as Ruby, when I no longer believed in God as I was raised to believe. But I still am a believer - it's a personality trait, to be someone who can believe. But then what do you believe in?

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • God
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  • Remember

• All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Sense

• 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