Alexandre Dumas Quotes

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

Alexandre Dumas

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• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Thought
  • Would
  • Swim

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • New
  • Circumstances
  • Course

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Book
  • Convinced

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Identity

• In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Play
  • Calm

• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• The first wealth is health.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health
  • First
  • Wealth

• Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

  

  W. L. George
  • Old
  • Vanity
  • Mammoth

• The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Assumption

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Summer is always best through a window.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Summer

• The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Society

• When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Care
  • Hurt
  • Reckon

• Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Up
  • Live
  • Moments

• You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Care
  • Tears
  • Pleasures