Alexandre Dumas Quotes

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Alexandre Dumas

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• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Community
  • Doing

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Movie
  • Problem
  • Couple

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movies
  • Only
  • Ruin

• Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Kids
  • Advice
  • Accept

• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Words
  • Struggle
  • Start

• When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Best
  • Try

• When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Succeed
  • Prove

• If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Train

• Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Life
  • Great
  • Kids

• Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • America
  • Latin

• I don't really dress up for Halloween.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Up
  • Halloween

• I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Loved

• *Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the 'nobility' of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Reality

• There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Impossible