Alfred de Musset Quotes

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Alfred de Musset

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• Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Up
  • Together
  • Emotions

• I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Cute
  • Worth
  • Vintage

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Great
  • Know

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.

  

  Raghuram Rajan

• Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Work
  • Children
  • Hope

• To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Society

• Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Remember
  • Bible

• To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Improvement

• Dance is a way of connecting and finding a moment with someone. It really is something special and unique that you don't find in any other physical activity, you know? Because it's you with another person, and you guys dive in together with these characters. So dance, to me, has been really special to create amazing bonds with people.

  

  Allison Holker
  • Dance
  • Create
  • Characters

• A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Quality
  • Pleasure
  • Aspect

• 'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work
  • Cold

• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Painting

• A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Earth
  • Happiness
  • Memory