Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

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• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Shock
  • Electrical

• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wise

• The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Platform

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • World
  • Child
  • Prepare

• I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Comedy

• Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Internet
  • Exist
  • Almost

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Death
  • Sun

• April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Advice
  • Tax
  • April

• Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

  

  Larry Wall

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice

• I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • World
  • Good
  • Movie

• It makes unavoidably necessary an entirely new organization of society in which production is no longer directed by mutually competing individual industrialists but rather by the whole society operating according to a definite plan and taking account of the needs of all.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Society
  • Organization

• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Heart
  • True
  • Jesus

• I think Netflix is incredible! I travel a lot, so it keeps me company sometimes. I like 'Peaky Blinders.' I'm a big fan of Cillian Murphy, and he is quite the actor. I watch documentaries, mainly, but I've really gotten into watching scary movies. 'It Follows' is wicked.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Travel
  • Scary

• We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Travel
  • Feet
  • Pleasures