Nicole Oresme Quotes

Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.

Nicole Oresme

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• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• Growing up, I was always the small guy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Small

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Small
  • Drama
  • Cricket

• If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Son
  • Cat
  • Pictures

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Order
  • Now
  • Events

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Me
  • Christmas

• I nitpick details.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Details

• I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

  

  Larry Wall

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Humble

• The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.

  

  Charles Ruff

• I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Want
  • You
  • Chefs

• I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Fireworks

• The future belongs to those who innovate.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Future
  • Innovate

• Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.

  

  Nicole Oresme
  • Money
  • Community
  • Property