Emilie du Chatelet Quotes

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

Emilie du Chatelet

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• There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Different
  • Day

• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • School
  • Water

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Man

• No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Good
  • May
  • Earth

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Why
  • Natural
  • Big

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Words
  • Sports

• Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • End
  • India

• If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Existence

• Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Aids
  • Preach
  • Free Love

• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Marriage

• Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • People
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• I love this idea of expanding the game universe. It has been limited. I guess probably because the genre was so successful, and the people who were creating those games made so much money at it they just had no desire to sort of open it up.

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

  

  Jerry West
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Up
  • Stress
  • Empowering

• I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Funny
  • Elephant

• One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  

  Bronagh Gallagher
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Peace

• To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

  

  Emilie du Chatelet
  • Happy
  • Passion
  • Prejudice