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

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• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
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• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• 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
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
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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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• 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
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• 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
  • Important
  • Character

• 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
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Help

• 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
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Grease

• Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Safety

• 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
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Boy

• What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Time
  • Important
  • Leadership

• I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • War

• All of a sudden, I'm thinking, these guys Afghani men aren't so bad. I'm like the type of asshole where if you're nice to me once, I'm your friend for life. Sure, you hacked your kid's clit off, but you were nice!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I know you love her... you're gay and she's Celine Dion!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • She
  • Gay

• To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus … thereby it becomes its enemies.

  

  Philip K. Dick

• Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Patience

• Nature recharges me.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Nature

• Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Reality
  • Courage

• It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• 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
  • Nature
  • Interest
  • Perform