Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.

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• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Military
  • Strength
  • Form

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Church
  • Never
  • Hell

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Dedicated
  • Disdain
  • Unconventional

• What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Nothing
  • Negative

• Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Power
  • Food
  • Respect

• We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Love
  • Prince

• He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Business
  • True
  • Soul

• Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Player
  • June

• The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss

• The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Heart

• Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.

  

  Nigel Mansell
  • Positive
  • Young
  • Answer

• I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Time

• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Lessons
  • Knees

• Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar