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

• 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

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

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Train

• It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Script

• We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Coffee
  • Married
  • Ritual

• The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Media

• The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

  

  Peter Cetera Chicago
  • People
  • Heart

• I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Guy

• You can sense their anger before they even say a word.

  

  Ben Carson

• Nobody is going to believe what you're saying if you don't believe it yourself.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Believe

• I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.

  

  Matt Walsh
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• 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