It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and everyone else. They [Americans] were almost all of them like that. And it definitely got Maigret’s back up. It made him think of clothing that was too neat, too clean, too well-pressed.
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Related Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to ... SUE MERRELL It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, to... STAN DALE It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, to... STAN DALE And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn’t believe them. They were too tho... HELEN OYEYEMI It was like they got all the momentum right there. But we just made too many mistakes, too many turn... BRIAN WATERS It was a pretty good turnout in spite of the weather, and the crowd was very well behaved. We made a... INSPECTOR DANIEL JACKSON People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that the... MICHAEL HARRINGTON There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no... JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the mov... DAKOTA FANNING I'd been having clean training runs through that section all week. Maybe they were a little too clea... JEFF CHRISTIE To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Being No. 1, we were definitely content with that. We got too lax about it. I guess we couldn't fini... HARRY ALFORD Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others,
dies in ignorance of himself. SIR WALTER SCOTT Yeah, but it was kind of neat, too. I said to myself, 'Yep, there's the old man. You could hear him ... DAN KENNEDY Tanner Stone was way too sure of himself. Too many women had been letting him have it all his own wa... AMY ANDREWS In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships him... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course... GEORGE MARTIN He said it was too long ago for him to put himself back in that mind-set, BRIAN SETZER Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that ... MELANIE JOY At times, they were complaining that we were working too hard. But I think it was worth it. GUUS HIDDINK It was really neat, especially knowing that they have professional groups in there, too. ARTHUR VINT I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its s... MARK TWAIN And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. KHALED HOSSEINI No soda. Nothing with tomato sauce, though fresh tomatoes were all right. Definitely no hot or spicy... CATHERINE KENT Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only t... JOHN IRVING We were playing well, and then we made that mistake and gave them that third goal. After that, it wa... DUSTIN DAHLQUIST Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a ma... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... JAMES BARRIE Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE He was most definitely one of the guys who got the wheels going. The advantage he had was that no on... ALLEN WALLACE I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even painting... LILLIAN TOO The structures around you also emanate energy, ... and if these structures are placed in a harmoniou... LILLIAN TOO The most important thing to understand is that feng shui is really about the energy that's surroundi... LILLIAN TOO Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiorit... ALFRED ADLER INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Too big and too strong at every position. It becomes a case of, how do you want to play them? They m... JOE DESANTIS I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven yea... BRYAN ROBSON I think David is at peace with his own game now. He was too worried about himself and worried about ... BOB HURLEY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much. JOHN DRYDEN But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. JOHN DRYDEN It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the g... ABRAHAM LINCOLN We felt that he got of jams the other night and he's our ace, so we were trying to let him get out o... DIRK WILLIAMS And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. ALEXANDER POPE But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too muc... PAULA COLE Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seei... DERRICK BYARS It's too bad that it has been shortened, it was all over too quickly. GENEVIEVE SIMARD It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts ... SASHA MIZAREE But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. JOHN DRYDEN It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. FRANCIS BACON There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why... ANONYMOUS He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled wi... VICTOR HUGO It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. SENECA Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man t... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good resp... SUZANNE COLLINS Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of
that writer Ovid and that writer Meta... UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too. ALESSIA CARA Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too. MINDY STERLING When it left, I knew it was on line. It was just whether it was too long or too short. I knew it was... CARY SHIVELY For Kraft it is definitely a non-core business for them and they were looking to get rid of it. For ... ALTON STUMP But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh... ROBERTSON DAVIES Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa... LOIS LOWRY We got it back down to a four-point game and Gilbert came down and made a couple big shots and Jamis... DESHAWN STEVENSON Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It ha... NEIL GAIMAN It was too important of a movie, too important of an opportunity, I wanted to be a part of re-creati... AL SHEARER Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to ... JONATHAN STROUD At first, my friends and family all kind of made fun of me and it was kind of a joke, but now that t... BILLY BROWN I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When... MICHAEL THOMAS FORD I think I made it too monumental and that's something I promised myself I wouldn't do that at the be... EMANUEL SANDHU We got off to a good start in that game, ... We just kind of got too comfortable and let them back i... EMILY BROWN No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi... WOODROW WILSON We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid... ALI LEROI The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night ... PLATO I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ... IRIS APFEL Did you bite someone?' Jack enquired. 'I laughed at people, which is much worse. My laughter ha... ISOBELLE CARMODY It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbol... FRANK GRIBBON When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining a... WAYNE DYER Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watchin... TOD GOLDBERG That was a huge play, it was pretty close to going out. It was big too, because at that point with b... DEAN KIEKHEFER I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go t... EMMA WATSON I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too compli... BILL JOY It makes you tear up a bit just to see that the kids can do something for you. There's one resident ... JEFF WALKER It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once though... SARAH DESSEN Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have... FAY WRAY I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too. ARTHUR HILLER It started with an apron, and then the bib. And it was like a piece of clothing that protected what ... GEOFFREY BEENE It started with an apron, and then the bib. And it was like a piece of clothing that protected what ... GEOFFREY BEENE What Hilton has done now is a little bit of a surprise in that some statements made earlier by Hilto... ARTHUR ADLER He knows I was the guy who just kept coming back and screwing things up, so he had to send me back. ... BOBBY MEACHAM
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GEORGES BRAQUE Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o... GEORGES BERNANOS Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. GEORGES SEURAT Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. GEORGES SEURAT The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to u... GEORGES BATAILLE The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep ... GEORGES DUHAMEL Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. GEORGES BERNANOS Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it. GEORGES BERNANOS What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which f... 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action which does not proceed f... GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ... GEORGES BERNANOS Art is made to disturb, science reassures. GEORGES BRAQUE The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, th... GEORGES CUVIER Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress... GEORGES RODENBACH War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. GEORGES COURTELINE A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f... GEORGES BERNANOS There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degener... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lac... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ... GEORGES BERNANOS It is far easier to make war than to make peace. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our ... GEORGES ROUAULT Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. GEORGES ROUAULT Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime. SEAN GEORGES Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, ... GEORGES CUVIER Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ... GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ... GEORGES BERNANOS The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means GEORGES BERNANOS Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible in... GEORGES DUHAMEL By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr... GEORGES AUGUSTE The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless... GEORGES ROUAULT He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer. GEORGES POMPIDOU Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person.... GEORGES BATAILLE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. GEORGES BRAQUE The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut... GEORGES BATAILLE Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was s... GEORGES CUVIER Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual,
it is mostly ... GEORGES BERTRAND A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ... GEORGES BERNANOS We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, aki... GEORGES BATAILLE Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of... GEORGES BATAILLE The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. GEORGES BERNANOS It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most pre... GEORGES BERNANOS It's the first time there will be Asian Excellence Awards handed out for performances on TV, movies ... BILL GEORGES I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a... GEORGES BIDAULT Oh to be seventy again. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. GEORGES POMPIDOU The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run GEORGES BERNANOS To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. GEORGES BRAQUE There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. GEORGES BRAQUE Truth exists; only lies are invented. GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. GEORGES BRAQUE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry GEORGES BRAQUE Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted. SEAN GEORGES Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu... GEORGES BATAILLE If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di... GEORGES BATAILLE The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria. GEORGES BIDAULT To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. GEORGES CANGUILHEM Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi... GEORGES RODENBACH I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce... GEORGES BATAILLE He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And... GEORGES RODENBACH Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus... GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ... GEORGES BIZET My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to... GEORGES BATAILLE It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the... GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. GEORGES ROUAULT Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. GEORGES CARPENTIER sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. GEORGES DUHAMEL Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to resto... GEORGES BATAILLE Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible... GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action
which does not proceed f... GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it. GEORGES BERNANOS It was a rough one. SEAN GEORGES Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L... GEORGES PEREC I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar... GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam... GEORGES PEREC Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself. GEORGES BATAILLE Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl... GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be... GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ... GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét... GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le... GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ... GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I am a believer and a conformist. GEORGES ROUAULT Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu... GEORGES RODENBACH Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ... GEORGES CUVIER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not lim... GEORGES CUVIER The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells ... GEORGES CUVIER The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even cl... GEORGES CUVIER In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa... GEORGES AUGUSTE ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho... GEORGES AUGUSTE What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v... GEORGES BENJAMIN If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas... GEORGES BENJAMIN A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't. GEORGES BENJAMIN