Alfred de Vigny Quotes

L'existence du Soldat est (après la peine de mort) la trace la plus douloureuse de barbarie qui subsiste parmi les hommes.

Alfred de Vigny

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• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Struggle
  • Israel

• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Teenager
  • Gym

• I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Books
  • Jokes
  • Spend

• If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • Diversity
  • Republicans

• Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Learning

• I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire

• We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Help
  • Relationship

• If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Bad
  • Beach

• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Fool

• When there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.

  

  Lawyer
  • Peace
  • Justice

• A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Stupid
  • Hero

• The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Devil

• I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Art
  • Magic

• If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Intelligent

• If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Distance
  • Life is
  • Stared

• When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Purpose
  • Impossible
  • Despair

• When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • School
  • Why
  • Parents

• I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.

  

  Amber Giles
  • Doing
  • Level
  • Preaching

• L'existence du Soldat est (après la peine de mort) la trace la plus douloureuse de barbarie qui subsiste parmi les hommes.

  

  Alfred de Vigny