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.

  

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• 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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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

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

  

  Sally Pearson
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• 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
  • Great
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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
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• 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
  • Mind
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  • Dark

• 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
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• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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• 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
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• 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
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• Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

  

  Al Boliska

• Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • World

• My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

  

  Jim Henson
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• As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

  

  Deron Williams
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• You have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.

  

  Philipp Meyer

• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  

  Sue Wicks
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• Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Music
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  • Soul

• 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
  • World
  • Soul
  • Stills