Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Charles de Montesquieu

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• I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Wisdom

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• Some people need sequins, others don't.

  

  Edith Head
  • People
  • Need
  • Some People

• I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Fashion
  • Rock
  • Dress

• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Generation

• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sensitive

• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Different
  • Years
  • Last

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Child
  • Cancer

• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Bread

• I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Politics
  • Making

• New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • City
  • Leader

• I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Value

• I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Film
  • New York

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it

  

  Genevieve Bell
  • World
  • Better
  • Morally

• The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.

  

  Chris Algieri
  • Work
  • Training

• Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Everyday

• I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Artist
  • See
  • Temperament

• The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu