Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.

Charles Baudelaire

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• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Poetry

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Naughty

• From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Love
  • Die

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Alone
  • Universe

• The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • House

• The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Long
  • Friend

• We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Strong

• After a major terrorist attack, every society faces a choice between fear and resolve. The world’s great democracies can’t sacrifice our values or turn our backs on those in need. Therefore, we must choose resolve. And we must lead the world to meet this threat.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Great
  • Society

• 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

  

  Edward Young
  • Past
  • Heaven
  • Wise

• If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

  

  Angus King
  • Guy

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Life

• When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I personally am not conscious of my accent.

  

  Jared Diamond

• You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Guy

• I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • I Know
  • Makes

• Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Trying
  • Powerful
  • Evil

• Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

  

  John Milton
  • Satan
  • Length
  • Fires

• Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Wonder
  • Prayer
  • Spirit

• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Satan
  • Jesus Christ
  • Interview

• Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Satan