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Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
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You don't go to Ruth's Chris [an upscale steak house] wearing painter's pants.
BRIAN MATTOS Guys are coming straight from work, paint all over their clothes. Some guys have so much sheet rock ...
BRIAN MATTOS They're trying to push us. I've had to tell a few people more than once.
BRIAN MATTOS I do feel more confident in our whole team, I expect that we'll do well. But I don't want to be over...
GABRIEL MATTOS It was a really good experience for me and for my team.
GABRIEL MATTOS My backhand fell apart and he really took advantage of it. He just picked on my weakness, and that's...
GABRIEL MATTOS I really wanted to get to the finals and win, but it didn't work out that way. He played really well...
GABRIEL MATTOS I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
VICTOR BORGE I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't
VICTOR BORGE Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni.
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupe...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA The welfare of the people is the highest law
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Una de las grandes cualidades de #socialmedia es que te pone al alcance de millones de personas con ...
CRISTO LEON I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
VICTOR BORGE Everything is de-servant, of everything. Nobody can serve the purpose of another as completely as th...
MICHAEL BOAG La educación hace a la gente fácil de dirigir pero difícil de manipular, fácil de gobernar pero ...
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM Combien de gars se sont arrêtés de boire comme des trous à l'âge de vingt ans pour empêcher un ...
TERRY PRATCHETT No puedo hablar de nuestra historia de amor, así que hablare de matemáticas.
JOHN GREEN Ha sido evidentemente por aquello que llamamos responsabilidad que el primate se convirtió en human...
FERNANDO SILVA SANTISTEBAN La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les...
KARL MARX Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Beaucoup de violences dans nos vies naissent de ce que nous nous empressons de tenter de résoudre...
THOMAS D'ANSEMBOURG La belleza de Margo era una especie de recipiente de perfección cerrado, intacto e irrompible.
JOHN GREEN En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Amaba tan entrañablemente su patria, que jamás quiso dudar de que fuese también la mía por temor...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Heredé de mis antepasados las ansias de huir. Dicen que mi sangre es europea. Yo siento que cada gl...
ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Mas como era extraordinária aquela sala cheia de gente — ou melhor, de animais -, a olhar na mesm...
DORIS LESSING The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L'argent ouvre de nombreuses po...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e...
MARC LEVY Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a ...
OLIVIER ROLIN Soy de donde haya alguien que sonría, que me de la mano, que me bese. Soy de donde son los que resi...
BENITO TAIBO El 99% de tu éxito de posicionamiento depende de tu contenido, el otro 1% se llama Twitter.
CRISTO LEON Notre devoir n’est pas de nous débarrasser du fou, mais de débarrasser le fou de sa folie.
ALBERT LONDRES Si el vino es el enemigo de la religión, habré de devorar al enemigo de la religión.
IDRIES SHAH Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ...
BASSHAM GREGORY Y con solo el poder de tus pisadas, enloqueces los corazones de Reyes y Damas, los Caballeros te sue...
JORGE EDUARDO CONTRERAS SALCEDO Il m'est indifférent de faire ou non de grandes choses, parce que j'ai l'intime conviction que de l...
ETTY HILLESUM Niciodată imaginea lui nu mi-a apărut atât de limpede. Nu-mi trebuie nici o fotografie de-a lui, ...
ANNE FRANK Jamais ma grand-mère ne se séparait de moi sans me donner quelque chose, un bonbon, une pièce de ...
NATHACHA APPANAH - O quê!? Se tinha intenção de ofender o Dâmaso quando o ameacei de lhe arrancar as orelhas? De ...
EçA DE QUEIRóS Más vale morir de pie que vivir de rodillas
EMILIANO ZAPATA Me aburrí de mí mismo, de mi propia paciencia.
MARIO BENEDETTI Una ciudad de papel para una chica de papel.
JOHN GREEN Aquellas cicatrices; eran insignias de honor, no de defectos
CASSANDRA CLARE People of character find a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you ar...
TERRY PRATCHETT Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
MARQUIS DE SADE Seguramente la soledad es peligrosa para las inteligencias que trabajan demasiado. Necesitamos tener...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Oh, war shill we go w'en de great day comes, / Wid be blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de dru...
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ... tan seguro estoy de que mi alma existe como de que la perversidad es uno de los impulsos primord...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Hallando en cada enfermedad síntomas de la mía, creía tenerlas todas y contraje una más cruel de...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A enorme multiplicação de livros, de todos os ramos do conhecimento, é um dos maiores males de no...
EDGAR ALLAN POE (...) compor meticulosamente o cadastro afetivo e o retrato fantástico-histórico de uma comunidade...
GESUALDO BUFALINO La cruz era el plato fuerte de la teología de Pablo. No era simplemente uno de los mensajes de Pabl...
C.J. MAHANEY La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE Es interesante aceptar sin traumas la idea de decepcionar a los demás, de no hacer lo que esperan d...
DAVID TRUEBA Todo era de los otros y de nadie, hasta que tu belleza y tu pobreza llenaron el otoño de regalos.
PABLO NERUDA Os homens que andam divorciados de Deus deixam de ver e interpretar as expressões mais eloquentes d...
JURACI ROCHA Hay muchas maneras de poner a secar una caja de cerillos húmeda, pero puede estar segura de que tie...
LAURA ESQUIVEL Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto.
MICHEL FABER « La façon zen de vivre : PAS D'EGO, PAS DE PROBLEMES. »
KUNCHOK En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Son múltiples los usos para las incontables oportunidades que depara la vida moderna de mirar —co...
SUSAN SONTAG Estou sempre a fazer isto com as pessoas. Ponho-as de parte antes de as conhecer, ou acho que a simp...
JULIA GREGSON Confieso que el Elixir de la Larga Vida me seducía más: antes de entender y sentir la presencia de...
PAULO COELHO De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitif...
DAVID TRUEBA Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale...
ALEXANDRE JARDIN Seguramente tiene razón. Soy una caprichosa. Pero caprichosa de él.
De nuestro tiempo juntos...
MEGAN MAXWELL -Te echo de menos.
-Vaya tontería. Nos hemos visto esta mañana.
-No es cuestión de tiem...
RAINBOW ROWELL Dejaría yo de ser un hombre si tu incapacidad de mujer no te hiciera el doble de atractiva a mis oj...
HENRIK IBSEN La plaine fit place à des rocailles parsemées de frêles arbustes et de fougères rabougries. Puis...
CYRILLE MENDES Isaac Asimov ofera o ilustrare dramatica: este ca si cum toata materia din univers ar fi un bob de n...
RICHARD DAWKINS Es así de sencillo. El reino de los cielos está en nuestro interior. Deje de buscar gurús. En vez...
BRIAN L. WEISS You do de pulling', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.
ISAAC NEWTON Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES No se trata de ser buena. Se trata de ponerle pasión.
JACKSON PEARCE Solo después de casarse descubrió Galip que en la vida de aquella persona anónima a la que las es...
ORHAN PAMUK Palavras são, na minha nada humilde opinião, nossa inesgotável fonte de magia. Capazes de formar ...
J.K. ROWLING Entre los labios y la voz, algo se va muriendo.
Algo con alas de pájaro, algo de angustia y de...
PABLO NERUDA Supongo que no hay manera de hacer regresar la nube con forma de hongo a esa bonita y reluciente esf...
ISAAC ASIMOV Yo era un liviano trozo de pelusa de diente de león, y él era el viento que me agitaba sobre el mu...
SARAH J. MAAS Pero, despues de todo, algunos dicen que las historias de amor mas hermosas son aquellas que no han ...
GUILLAUME MUSSO Supongo que eres quien eres por un montón de razones y quizás nunca conozcamos muchas de ellas per...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,
De...
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER (...) Y la alegría lo llenó de la cabeza a los pies, alegría de vivir y alegría de ser él mismo...
MICHAEL ENDE De extreme afstandelijkheid van internet vereist een extreme lichamelijkheid ter compensatie, vandaa...
MARTIJN BENDERS A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. ...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wi...
PAUL AUSTER El ascenso de humanos a dioses puede seguir cualquiera de estos tres caminos: ingeniería biológica...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Hay que cumplir con la tarea de vivir de tal forma que cuando nos vayamos, hasta el dueño de la fun...
JOSé MADERO VIZCAíNO La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN De som har makt over ordene bør være edru blant de rasende.
PER FUGELLI Oskar cumplía treinta y siete años, y acababa de abrir una botella de coñac. Sobre su escritorio ...
THOMAS KENEALLY Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Porque la mejor parte de nuestra memoria está fuera de nosotros, en una brisa húmeda de lluvia, en...
MARCEL PROUST 27 % de femmes à l'Assemblée, 25 % au Sénat. L'exécutif froufroutait un peu, ça faisait dynamiq...
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More Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
You don't go to Ruth's Chris [an upscale steak house] wearing painter's pants.
BRIAN MATTOS Guys are coming straight from work, paint all over their clothes. Some guys have so much sheet rock ...
BRIAN MATTOS They're trying to push us. I've had to tell a few people more than once.
BRIAN MATTOS I do feel more confident in our whole team, I expect that we'll do well. But I don't want to be over...
GABRIEL MATTOS It was a really good experience for me and for my team.
GABRIEL MATTOS My backhand fell apart and he really took advantage of it. He just picked on my weakness, and that's...
GABRIEL MATTOS I really wanted to get to the finals and win, but it didn't work out that way. He played really well...
GABRIEL MATTOS Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
[Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and
magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters.
[Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error.
[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
[Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
[Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit
down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
[Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL