Michel de Montaigne Quotes

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Topics

CommunicationAloneMindMeThought

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Joan Jett

LifeTimeTogetherStrongPhysics

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.

Jerome Powell

FailureManagementOpportunitiesRisk

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.

Anastacia

NatureChangeFighterNothingWill

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

Robert Glasper

PeopleBetterMusiciansYouBad

I just wasn't meant to do Shakespeare. I'm not vocally equipped; I've got this flat, nasal, East Anglian voice. I got to understand the fantastic words Shakespeare wrote but never got to fly with them.

Steven Mackintosh

WordsFlyVoiceUnderstandNever

New Jersey has more Superfund sites than other state in the nation, but considerable progress has been made.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ProgressNewMoreNationJersey

Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I've met.

Michael Pitt

WomenPassionHumorSense Of Humor

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

Courtney A. Kemp

FamilyMeGrowing UpBlackGrowing

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

Willie Aames

ChangeHopeYouAlwaysEverything

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

Susan B. Anthony

TimeRideWomanStandWheelSee

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

Tim Kaine

PushYouWayAfraidAverageGoing

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.

Rick Riordan

TeacherMeWorldThinkPlayHidden

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