Charles Gounod Quotes

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Charles Gounod

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• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Support

• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Black
  • Me
  • Player

• You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Christian

• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Beauty
  • Performance

• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• Teamwork is a strategic decision.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Teamwork

• Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Comfort
  • Cheese
  • Soup

• On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Man
  • More
  • Touch

• We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Children
  • Father
  • Restoration

• I look at it this way: I got to do better than yesterday.

  

  Uriah Hall

• The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • America
  • House

• I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Sense
  • Beliefs

• 'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Clear
  • Rhode Islanders
  • Tag Line

• If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

  

  George Eliot
  • Learned
  • Lesson
  • Failure Of Natuure

• Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Participation

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• Elegance. It's an attitude. A frame of mind. An intuition, a refusal, a rigor, a research, a knowledge. The attitude of elegance is also a way of behaving.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Attitude
  • Elegance
  • Behaving

• I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

  

  Charles Gounod
  • Limits
  • Elegance
  • Reached