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.

  

  Quintus Ennius
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• Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Act
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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.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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  • Power
  • Reality

• I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Germany
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  • Chefs

• It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Judge
  • Judging

• 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.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Life
  • Worship
  • Bigger

• We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Love
  • Success
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Freedom
  • Problem
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Animal
  • 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Govern
  • Regards
  • Entrusted

• People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Govern
  • Rulers

• 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.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Giving
  • Pain
  • Prejudice

• Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

  

  Plutarch
  • Enemies
  • Govern
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• Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Policy
  • Govern
  • Incidents

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Way
  • English
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• Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Kind
  • Praise
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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

  

  Lord Byron
  • American
  • Emperor
  • Snuff-box

• To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.

  

  George Washington
  • Design
  • Mankind
  • Worthy

• If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Emperor
  • Empress

• It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Internet
  • Cube
  • Personal computers

• If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Criticizing
  • Time to Love

• 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.

  

  Nicolas Bouvier
  • Worthy
  • Govern
  • Emperor