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Andre Malraux

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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he rea...
DORE SCHARY A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks
JAMES ALLEN Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
SOURCE UNKNOWN Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
ANONYMOUS Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
EMILY DICKINSON Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishe...
JASON ZEBEHAZY What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drown...
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
MAHATMA GANDHI A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
MAHATMA GANDHI A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
ALBERT EINSTEIN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA A man is what he thinks about all day long.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man ought to do what he thinks is right
JOHN WAYNE A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G. K. CHESTERTON If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
C.S. LEWIS He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is general...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi...
LEO TOLSTOY A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi...
LEO TOLSTOY Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe...
OCTAVIO PAZ It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thin...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Man is whoever he thinks he is, within his own boundaries.
DUDLEY DAVIDSON-JARRETT Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he...
JAMES BRYCE A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
C.S. LEWIS Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tel...
PABLO PICASSO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
ERNEST HOLMES A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
LESLIE STEPHEN A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can
HENRY FORD To a man, his world is what he sees, thinks and believes. But the man is not the world. He is just a...
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
EPICTETUS The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is t...
H. L. MENCKEN We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. FORBES Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might ha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant par...
DR. WILLARD GAYLIN The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it...
MARY RENAULT There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
LANCE ARMSTRONG A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at s...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The significance of a man is not what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The measure of man is not what he appropriates from society but what he bequeaths to society.
RICHARD JOHN VAN ZYL The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he i...
IGOR STRAVINSKY Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
UNKNOWN When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
C.F. RAMUZ

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ANDRE GIDE Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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ANDRE MAUROIS Style Is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
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ANDRE MAUROIS I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or...
ERIC ANDRE A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROIS It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
PETER ANDRE We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROIS I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of ...
ERIC ANDRE