One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand
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HENRIK IBSEN I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain br...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
SOURCE UNKNOWN AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
EZRA POUND The motivation is either an interest in space, astronomy, science fiction or being at one with the u...
CHARLES CHAFER Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
PROVERB One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
GERMAN PROVERB A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien...
W. H. AUDEN The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the di...
MIRA KOMAROVSKY Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.
JANET EVANOVICH The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest.
PRAKASH KARAT Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar...
GEORGE W. CRANE Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar...
GEORGE CRANE Either change yourself for the situation or change the situation to suit you.
VASU GOYAL Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rathe...
BARNETT NEWMAN ...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.
HERMANN HESSE We must either find a way or make one.
ANTHONY ROBBINS You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a...
ABHIJIT NASKAR It has that air, ... It would be surprising if it was Jean Chretien that leaked that part of the rep...
GILLES DUCEPPE Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
EMMA GOLDMAN Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh o...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in...
PERICLES Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in...
PERICLES All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use o...
JARED DIAMOND If I had to pick one or the other, in this situation I would take disability insurance.
KAREN SPERO Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
GEORGE CRANE Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are ...
H. L. MENCKEN Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its...
SIMON SCHAMA The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void
of knowledge, or of the fear of God...
GEORGE HERBERT See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...
ECKHART TOLLE Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important compon...
PETER ABRAHAMS Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Either I would find an open shot or help create for someone else.
CHAMIQUE HOLDSCLAW The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the ch...
ANTOINE RIVAROL One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- ...
HERMANN HESSE If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business...
DANNY MEYER We must take advantage of this situation,
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W. H. AUDEN …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There is no excuse for failing to declare one's business interests. It is simply a matter of filling...
DOUGLAS GIBSON Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an int...
PERICLES As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
DOVE CAMERON He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Chur...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there...
MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural ha...
BJORN ULVAEUS To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child ...
ANTOINE RIVAROL but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN If a person gives nothing of what he has, either take nothing or take everything. If a person serves...
APURVA GAGLANI To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of...
CYNTHIA OZICK When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrific...
EDMUND BURKE Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me ...
SAMUEL BECKETT We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the hi...
JOHN BURROUGHS If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver th...
C.S. LEWIS If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
GITA BELLIN If one desires a change, one must be that change before that
change can take place.
GITA BELLIN It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their a...
PAUL GOODMAN If they are in an audit situation, we can't confirm or deny it. The IRS looks at numerous market seg...
GLORIA SUTTON She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or el...
CARSON MCCULLERS Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
GLORIA STEINEM Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a per...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard ...
SAMUEL ADAMS In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER I don't want an alcoholic or drug addict to think he's the only one in that situation.
MINDY GEHR I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE This is an outdoor show that is open to all artists, flea market dealers, food vendors, civic organi...
CHERYL FERGUSON It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It...
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EUGENE F. WALTER There are judges at all levels who may face a situation where there is a potential conflict of inter...
CHRIS HEAGARTY Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be ...
AL SPALDING No one is perfect & no one is without weakness for one thing or other. Every one encounters rejectio...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an a...
GRAHAM GREENE Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an a...
GRAHAM GREENE However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice...
ABDULLAH OCALAN You should be an expert on your life story. If you're not interested in your story, no one else will...
BILL CORDES In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one’s ending right around the corner, and yet not k...
TEO YI HAN Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one...
P. J. O'ROURKE Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. If the flesh were to be a preacher the gospel it will love to preach is the gospel called variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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JEAN ROSTAND Theories pass. The frog remains.
JEAN ROSTAND We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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Each note of which calls like a little sister,
Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND What would you have me do?
Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy cl...
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A lovely ...
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EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
EDMOND ROSTAND Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell
from Cyrano.
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EDMOND ROSTAND My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
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In the on...
EDMOND ROSTAND ...But...to sing,
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with a voice that sti...
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EDMOND ROSTAND Attendez!... Je choisis mes rimes... Là, j'y suis.
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---What...
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JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
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JEAN KERR Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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JEAN GENET Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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JEAN HOUSTON Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
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JEAN COCTEAU Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL