Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
Ram Charan -
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt -
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg -
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent -
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie -
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen -
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie -
It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
Harmon Killebrew -
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
Abigail Washburn
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
Abdus Salam -
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
Harbhajan Singh -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
Ira Glass -
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
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It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work.
Chirlane McCray -
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
David Mackay -
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
Paul Newman -
Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau