Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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• Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Deep

• We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Change
  • Australia
  • Plants

• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Matter
  • Sacred

• We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Soldiers
  • Six
  • Indians

• Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Love
  • Free
  • Filmmaking

• At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Week

• There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Souls
  • Courageous
  • Impels

• If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Knows
  • Ifs
  • Lasts

• For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Children
  • Money

• I think it would be nice if we start spending a little more time together,

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Time
  • Together
  • Nice

• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Peace

• We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

  

  William Henry Willimon
  • People
  • Blessed
  • Generous

• If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Practice
  • Audience
  • Missing

• Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Learn
  • Child
  • Congress

• Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Light
  • Borders
  • Absurd

• The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Critics