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Joseph de Maistre Quotes

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Joseph de Maistre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: french
Birth: April 1, 1753 - February 26, 1821

Topics

Vision Man Results Poor Everything

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Jet Li

Family Home Wife Boss I Am Happy

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

John Knoll

Picture Trouble Way Whatever Through

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simone Weil

Day Suffering Think Poverty Know

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

Shoshannah Stern

Family Communication I Am People Up

I was born out of classical music.

Mika

Music Born Out Classical Music

Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that in some senses could be thought of as traditionally American: The idea that everybody is equal; the idea that the rights of women and men should be the same.

Mohsin Hamid

Women Myself Men People Champion

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Mo Rocca

Time Help Back Go Grandmother She

My view is that Roe v. Wade had no basis in law or fact.

Josh Hawley

Law View Fact Wade Roe Had

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Joseph de Maistre

Man Curious Create Difficulties Them

I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

Cory Gardner

Time Day Think Better Going Than

We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He's delivered.

Bret Stephens

Keep Us He Trump Delivered Elected

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

Brett Hull

I Am Me Wait Game Think Stop