Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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  • Find
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• Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Country
  • Day

• With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Society
  • Years
  • Democratic

• If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • You
  • Fall
  • Back

• Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.

  

  Patricia McBride
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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • High
  • Value
  • Friendship

• As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • May
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• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  

  Cyril Connolly
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• I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Home

• I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • People
  • Women
  • Soccer

• Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

  

  Al Boliska

• Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

  

  James Salter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Real

• We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

  

  Bob Thaves
  • Start
  • Senate

• Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
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