Emile Chartier Quotes

It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

Emile Chartier

• Happy
• Desire
• Difficult
• Discontented

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parents
  • Alone
  • Educated

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Power
  • Reality

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Live
  • Strong

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • America
  • You
  • Walk

• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Want
  • Give

• 'I have now learnt to despise you,' he said. 'You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!'

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Rose
  • Prince

• I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Baby

• Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cheesy

• People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The longest suicide note in history.

  

  Gerald Kaufman
  • History
  • Suicide Note

• I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Movie

• It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Difficult