Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Films
  • Chosen

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Church
  • Never
  • Hell

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • School
  • Money

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Problems

• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Guy
  • Song

• You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

  

  John Sandford
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • People
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Truth
  • Respect

• If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Leaving