Emile Souvestre Quotes
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.Emile Souvestre
Quotes to Explore
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We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood -
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan -
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg -
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
Safra A. Catz -
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
Gabriel Macht -
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
Karen DeCrow -
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
Harbhajan Singh -
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
Laura Riding -
Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.
Bob Dylan -
For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?
Jennifer Lynch
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I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
Christopher Meloni -
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
Benicio Del Toro -
I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.
Andrea McLean -
Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.
Bob Beckel -
I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
Lynn Coady -
The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
Bradley Walsh
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Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.
Mark Zupan -
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Vandana Shiva -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
Emile Souvestre