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

• I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Like
  • Shapes
  • Feminine

• 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

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Night
  • Italian

• 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

• New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • New York
  • Name
  • Hyperbole

• In the last few years we have been working to ensure a move like this does not have such a big impact, before I would have been worried nine out of 10, now I'm worried four out of 10. It's not the same and we've done a lot of work to ensure we do not depend on the transfer market. At The Premier League we are above the name of the players, just like Real Madrid is bigger than the brand of Cristiano Ronaldo.

  

  Javier Tebas
  • Working
  • Impact
  • Bigger

• Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Liberty
  • Frozen
  • Goddess

• If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Giving

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

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar