Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Shivers

No sports, no music, no vice presidents - none of the things I'm good at. I got the French Revolution, which was not very kind to me, being a leftie,

Phyllis Rose

The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The thirst for truth is not a French passion

Lucy Lawless

I've been staying in a lovely little house in the French Quarter, and at first I planned to ride out the storm,

Maurice Allais

It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.

Steve Johnson

This isn't a 'doping positive'. This is just a publication in a French tabloid newspaper. That's our perspective.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Eddie Izzard

ello, Sue. I've got legs. Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. Bye! I love you

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.