Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.

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• If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Better
  • Been
  • Occupation

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • End

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Government
  • Never

• Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Wine
  • Website
  • Cheap

• I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • America
  • Man

• By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

  

  Barry Schuler
  • You
  • Write
  • Changes

• I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Farm
  • Beef

• It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled.

  

  John Mott
  • Great
  • Jesus

• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Art
  • Suffering
  • Learn

• My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

  

  Alexander Koch
  • Up
  • Character
  • American

• People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Mother
  • Singing

• Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.

  

  Alexandre Dumas