Moliere Quotes

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Career
  • Want

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Party
  • Everyone
  • Table

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Water
  • Quality

• Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Party
  • Never
  • Friendship

• Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.

  

  Basil Bunting

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Women
  • Art

• Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mistake

• We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops - it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

  

  Arlen Specter
  • Work

• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

  

  Jean Paul

• We're living in hard times.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Fail
  • Existance

• To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Proud
  • Causes
  • Burning

• Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!It cannot traceEither your name or your faceNobody knows you're still living.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Heart
  • Heaven

• For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• 'I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!''You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you.'Slowly, he shook his head. 'If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her?''You're being silly, David. Mummy's lonely. That's why she had you.''She's got Daddy. I've got nobody 'cept you, and I'm lonely.'

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Good
  • Why
  • She

• It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

  

  Moliere
  • Heaven
  • Compromise
  • Pleasures