Claudine Guerin de Tencin Quotes

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Claudine Guerin de Tencin

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Women
  • Government
  • Equality

• I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Die
  • End

• I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Morning
  • Magic
  • Movies

• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Different
  • School
  • Heart

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Police
  • Possible
  • Serial

• We kind of like the new Outkast.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Kind
  • Like
  • New

• We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Love
  • Big
  • Crowd

• It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Night
  • Write

• The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Know
  • Details
  • Relevant

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Time
  • House
  • Period

• I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Trying
  • Learn

• My mother always wanted to give back.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Give

• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Quiet

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• You never know, man, ... I really don't know. And I don't even really want to get involved to find out, you know what I mean?

  

  Cedric Benson
  • Know
  • Never

• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

  

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin
  • Never
  • Friendship
  • Refuse