Louis XIV Quotes

It is impossible to please all the world.

Louis XIV

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: royalty
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 5, 1638 - September 1, 1715

Topics

WorldImpossiblePleaseAll The World

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

John Grierson

TrainingWorldPersonalMatterWorst

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

Robert Harris

PoliticsWarYouFallRiseKnow

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Matt Stone

EveryonePointRipped

Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

Jeffrey Brown

WritingMoreTopEverythingOutUp

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Robert Baden-Powell

ListeningYouObservationWillTalk

I was so fortunate; in the years that I was in 'Thrones,' we were able to shoot in Iceland. I think some of my favourite memories would have to be isolated out there, surrounded by nothing but snow and ice.

Rose Leslie

SnowMemoriesThinkIceNothingOut

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

Mike Lee

GovernmentThinkWantDoesAnyone

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.

Louis Garrel

WorkGoodHopeDayGood WorkDone

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

Jonas Salk

WorkMorningSeaMeWake UpPartner

When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

Claudio Ranieri

WineHouseCardsChampagneGifts

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

Ashley Greene

WorkFocusYearLos AngelesMatter

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

William H. O'Connell

CatholicRemainsPuritanPassed

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