Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FameNeverTranquilityBedfellows

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

Jim Valvano

FamilyCourageWifePeopleMomHere

Empowering, cultivating, and ultimately serving those who follow you will unlock massive potential within your organization, allowing you to solve for problems in real time.

Stanley A. McChrystal

TimeOrganizationProblemsPotential

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Tori Amos

LifeParentingChangesLittleYour

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Rush Limbaugh

New YorkStoryI CanNewHonest

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson

EducationTeacherDegreeUniversity

In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.

January Jones

BusinessChoicesPlanYouKnowBeen

We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.

Jose Angel Gurria

TimeAchieveAchievingWayMean

I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'

Ashley Graham

WorkHomeMeLoseGoNever

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Willie Stargell

PoorAlwaysSlider

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

Peter Marino

MyselfArchitectureBeginningYou

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

Seanan McGuire

TogetherPeopleBookFriendsLong

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

Tim Hetherington

WorldThinkImportantUnderstand

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