Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Good
  • Like

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Soul

• Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Silence

• Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Fly
  • Your
  • Loosen

• People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Think
  • Stupid

• I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Dance
  • Reputation
  • Got

• It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Interesting
  • Villain

• No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Goal
  • Attitude
  • Ability

• The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • City
  • London

• I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • House
  • Politics

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Work
  • Game
  • Simple

• Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Triumph
  • Immortal
  • Throne

• Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange,because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Support

• I did a show in Germany, and some kid - he was disabled - he was actually in a wheelchair, and he came out to my show, and he couldn't get across to me what he was trying to say, and you could see that he was frustrated because he couldn't fully express himself, and I just felt like, 'Wow, he's just really passionate about me.'

  

  Little Simz
  • Trying

• There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Inspiration is nothing without work.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar