Andre Maurois Quotes

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Andre Maurois

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• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Guns

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Women
  • Career

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Communication
  • Speed
  • Reader

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Control
  • End

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Hurry

• I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Enjoy

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Heart
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

  

  Markus Wolf
  • Time
  • Important
  • Women

• Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • War
  • Fighting

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Men