Alexandre Dumas Quotes

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • School
  • She

• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Desire

• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Know
  • Say
  • Jail

• As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • Victory

• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Fate

• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• Sanctification is not regeneration.

  

  Matthew Simpson

• If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

  

  David Leitch
  • Trying
  • Rock

• When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

  

  Jimmy Dean

• The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Experience
  • Existence
  • Manifests

• Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Great
  • Miracle

• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Creativity
  • Secret
  • Knowing

• I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Control

• Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Long
  • Father
  • Tree

• There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Friendship
  • Secret
  • Cares