Emile Souvestre Quotes

Women speak in the superlative.

Emile Souvestre

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• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Meant To Be

• A good system shortens the road to the goal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Road
  • Goal

• The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Iran
  • West

• I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Start
  • Does

• Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Telling

• The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Fashion
  • Focus
  • Media

• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Father
  • Political
  • Dad

• If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Help

• There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

  

  Dave Ramsey

• I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Success
  • Princess
  • Damn

• I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

  

  Caroline Corr

• I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • People
  • Why
  • Culture

• The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

  

  Katie Hoff
  • Good
  • High
  • Fly

• Twenty years ago, Bed-Stuy was shorthand for a kind of chaos and disorder in which good people had no freedom to walk, shop, play, or just sit on the front steps and talk. It was too dangerous. But today, no more, thanks to the work of those who chose lives of service and danger to help others.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • English
  • Doubt
  • German

• Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Women

• When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Dad

• Women speak in the superlative.

  

  Emile Souvestre
  • Women
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