Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
Quotes to Explore
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.
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You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
