Alphonse Daudet Quotes

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Alphonse Daudet

• Love
• Suffering
• For Her
• For Him
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• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

  

  A. James Clark
  • People
  • Good
  • Opportunities

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Marriage

• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Statistics
  • Grammar

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Takes
  • Shoe

• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Today
  • Beginning

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Path
  • Influence
  • Down

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Answers
  • Masters

• Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Deficit
  • Human Resources

• Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Friend
  • Discovered
  • Wizards

• Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

  

  Beaumont Newhall
  • Poetry
  • Definition
  • Faculties

• I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

  

  Alphonse Daudet
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her