Alfred de Musset Quotes

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset

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• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• That's painful always to lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Always
  • Lose
  • Painful

• Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Collaboration
  • Painful

• What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Memories
  • Painful
  • Slightly

• Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I spoke last night with many of my counterparts and without exception there was overwhelming support for this action by the military coalition consisting of the United States and the United Kingdom.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Night
  • Action
  • Support

• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Painful
  • Passage
  • Rite

• Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Job
  • Hope

• Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Management
  • Humorous
  • Manage

• Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • She
  • Kids
  • Painful

• Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

  

  Zanele Muholi
  • Artist
  • Fine
  • Painful

• Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Peace
  • Spiritual

• In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Dream
  • Kind

• We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

  

  Euripides
  • Death
  • Life is
  • Glorious

• The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Simple
  • Path
  • Tragic

• As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Painful
  • Significant

• The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Believe
  • Results
  • Produce

• Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• It was difficult to exercise him properly, because he was so big that even if I ran—and I was for ever running, in my zeal for his welfare,—he still, to keep up with me, needed only to walk, and if I paused for any reason, such as getting my breath or having to tie my shoelace, instantly he lay down.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Running
  • Reason
  • Exercise

• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Painful
  • Exception
  • Glorious