Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Action
  • Lost
  • Path

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Be kind

• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Words
  • Control

• I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Society

• But I wasn’t quite sure how to spell ‘ Cartaud, and I found listings for Cartau, Cartaud , Cartault , Cartaux, Carteau, Carteaud, Carteaux, (34 )

  

  Patrick Modiano

• We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Heart
  • Study

• 'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Good
  • Children
  • Past

• Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Night
  • Memories
  • Rose

• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Moments
  • Effort

• Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

  

  Alexander the Great

• He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.

  

  Elton John

• Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.

  

  Aeschylus

• I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Black
  • Cat

• Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Firsts
  • Endurance
  • Endure

• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Truth

• In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Government
  • Child
  • Chinese

• Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Forced
  • Unable

• What we were doing at the end of the game, we've never done before. The other side of it is, if we don't do it, for instance when we did take a knee against Texas Tech, does that then come back and haunt you? Is that the reason that maybe kept you out of something, and how do you live with that as well? Its really a rotten position to play in.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Play
  • Reason

• Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Truth
  • Philosophy
  • Sciences