Nicolas Bouvier Quotes
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.
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I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.
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It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.
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Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.
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We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.
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Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.
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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
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People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.
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Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
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Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
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Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.
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The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.
