Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Qui serait assez insensé pour mourir sans avoir fait au moins le tour de sa prison?

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • You
  • Unique
  • Clothes

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • War
  • Problem
  • Solution

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Country
  • Family
  • Generation

• There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Start
  • Voices
  • Geneva

• Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

  

  Halsey
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Everything

• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Kind
  • Connection

• SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Song
  • Small
  • Wind

• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • True
  • Science

• Whatever we know without inference is mental.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart

• I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Play
  • Faces
  • Causes

• The new dimensions of the message are examples of the Spirit of truth doing what Jesus promised he would do...

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Jesus
  • Message
  • Spirit of truth

• Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.

  

  Katherine Neville
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Remember

• Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

  

  George Will
  • Enjoy
  • Baseball
  • Democratic

• It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

  

  Slim Whitman
  • Practice
  • Fighter
  • Coming

• Qui serait assez insensé pour mourir sans avoir fait au moins le tour de sa prison?

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar