Emmanuel des Essarts Quotes

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

Emmanuel des Essarts

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• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
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• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Energy
  • Pay
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• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

  

  Rand Paul
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• You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Feel
  • Need
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• George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Finance

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
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• You have seeds of greatness in you! I believe our lives as Christians should be the most exciting because we have the favor and blessings of God on our side!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Greatness

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
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• I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
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  • Know

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Important
  • Country
  • City

• The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

  

  David Farr
  • Freedom

• I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • American
  • Style

• Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Up
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• What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

  

  Charlie Adam
  • Death

• If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?

  

  Lindsay Hartley
  • World
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• Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.

  

  Jeff Giles
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• We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Work
  • Quality

• The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support.

  

  John Linder
  • People
  • American
  • High

• Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

  

  Lea Michele
  • God
  • House
  • Amazing

• The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

  

  Emmanuel des Essarts
  • Quality
  • Thinker
  • Benevolence