Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Truth
  • New

• My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Guitar

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Kind
  • Fast

• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Present
  • Process
  • Evolution

• Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Reality
  • Mad

• I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Food
  • Chocolate

• In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Life
  • Women
  • Power

• Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

  

  Reid Scott
  • Attention
  • Listening
  • Acting

• When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar