Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Charles de Montesquieu

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• We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • God
  • Women
  • Always

• The underdog winning is the romantic position.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Winning
  • Romantic
  • Underdog

• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Actors
  • Talented

• Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Human

• I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Today
  • Most
  • Digital

• The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Feeling

• Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki told Congress in February that the occupation could require 'several hundred thousand troops.' But because Rumsfeld and Bush did not want to hear disagreement with their view that Iraq could be invaded at a much lower cost, Shinseki was hushed and then forced out.

  

  Al Gore
  • Army
  • February

• My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Mother
  • Father

• A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • Mind
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

  

  Jessica Anne Newham

• I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, 'Would Ricky be interested in doing this?'

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • God
  • Heart
  • Moments

• It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Sad

• On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.

  

  Liang Chow
  • Balance

• Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Real
  • Home

• The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Time

• Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

  

  Katie Price
  • Time
  • Game
  • Red

• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Universe

• In some respects I'm quite easily led, so I have to make sure I've got my own space, and that I feel comfortable in my working environment. It's very important for me to work with the right collaborators, as I can easily get led into a corner where I'm not comfortable.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Work
  • Important
  • Space

• I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.

  

  James Gray
  • Guy

• Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu