Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Almost

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Library
  • Stand
  • Brick

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Band
  • Greatest
  • Planet

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Learn

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Power
  • Literature

• 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the contrary, that Republicans believe relentlessly attacking womens' abilities to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win elections. I believe it is at their peril that they pursue this anti-women agenda.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Help

• At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

  

  David Mazzucchelli
  • People
  • Work

• If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Life
  • Men