Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• I'd like to do more acting.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Like
  • Acting
  • More

• Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• Our lives teach us who we are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Teach
  • Lives
  • U.S.

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Dark
  • Blue
  • Season

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Electronic

• When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Education
  • Health

• I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Like
  • Rose
  • Bowl

• I like to control my own personal life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Control
  • Like

• You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Morning

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Paradise

• I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

  

  Denis Kearney
  • Men
  • Mountain
  • Desert

• I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Rich
  • Adam

• Too many girls try to imitate others and don't think about what makes them unique. The best part of a girl is what makes her who she is as an individual.

  

  Anwar Hadid
  • She
  • Girl
  • Unique

• So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them

  

  William H. Gass
  • World
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar