Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Said
  • Going
  • Phones

• I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Those
  • Arty

• My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Parents
  • Smart
  • Creative

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Night
  • Words
  • Hand

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Know
  • Star

• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Dream
  • Words
  • Dad

• It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Said

• I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Heroism

• Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Sun

• It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Life
  • Good
  • My Life

• I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Persons

• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • She
  • Power

• I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.

  

  John Elkann
  • Life
  • Environment

• He was a man, he always performed his promises.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Man
  • Always
  • Promises

• For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.

  

  Louis Fischer
  • World
  • History
  • Energy

• Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar