Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• New York is a fantastic city.

  

  Marat Safin
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Just Because

• I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Love
  • Know
  • Genre

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Education
  • Change
  • Fight

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Always
  • Popular
  • Really

• Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Support
  • Drunk
  • Statistics

• While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Great
  • Children
  • Political

• Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Character
  • Wings

• The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Interesting
  • New
  • Most

• My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Attitude
  • Find
  • Somebody

• I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Words
  • Matter
  • Few

• Heavy problems genocide desensitized environments Sometimes make it hard to sympathize, pardon

  

  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco

• We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • America
  • Forever

• A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Friend
  • Acting
  • Persons

• I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about people with intellectual disabilities.

  

  Hannah Teter
  • Olympian
  • Snowboarder
  • Global Ambassador

• Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.'

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Nice
  • Cheesy

• It is important to be chic.

  

  Roberto Cavalli
  • Important
  • Chic

• Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar