Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

  

  G. H. Hardy

• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Beginning

• 'Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I was very, very naughty in school.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • School
  • Naughty

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Children
  • Money

• My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Great

• Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

  

  Louis R. Chenevert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Strong

• No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People

• At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.

  

  John Fusco
  • World
  • Age

• 'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Communication
  • Intuition

• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

  

  Georg Baselitz
  • Father
  • Painting

• The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Personality

• Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Live
  • Community
  • Moment

• In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • People
  • She
  • True

• Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.

  

  Gary Gutting
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Philosophical

• A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Philosophical
  • Illumination
  • Sharpness