Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

Alexandre Dumas

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • War
  • Man
  • Soldiers

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• I miss baseball.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Baseball
  • Miss

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Leaders

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Dad

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Audience
  • Kid

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Want
  • Value
  • Wealth

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

  

  Jean Kerr
  • Live
  • Truck

• Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Character
  • Question
  • Serious

• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
  • Yield

• Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
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