Andre Gide Quotes

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Now
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Important
  • Support

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Long
  • Rest
  • Run

• Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Earth
  • Kindness

• There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees, And they certainly annoy each other, But they certainly enjoy each other, Yes, they pretend to flout each other, But they couldn't do without each other...

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Life
  • Blow

• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Business
  • Control

• Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Work
  • Political
  • Religious

• Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.

  

  James Madison
  • Mind

• I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • People

• I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Hope

• I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • She
  • Song
  • Wise

• A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

  

  Betty White
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Car

• I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Character

• Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Control
  • Ways

• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Great
  • Littles
  • Innocent

• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

  

  Andre Gide