Denis Diderot Quotes

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Topics

PatriotismSocietyEphemeralMotive

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

Jennifer Granholm

GreatWaterLegacyDoneNothingAct

Any small business that's predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.

John Quelch

BusinessInnovationSmallInternet

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

Amanda Knox

SituationReactHorribleHappensHow

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

Spider Robinson

WalkDayMenForwardPennyCanada

I'm not afraid of not working.

Tom Sturridge

AfraidWorking

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Roger Bannister

AcceptanceSchoolMoreDaysStudents

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

HistoryGreatPoliticalSkillBooks

Let me do what I do best. And that's to run and represent my country and make my country proud.

Mo Farah

BestMeProudCountryRunRepresent

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Diane Wakoski

HistoryGreatPoetryThinkLanguage

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

Christian Louboutin

ShoesI AmKingPeopleSayPainful

Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious.

Conor McGregor

LifeTogetherTeaYouCircleKnow

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.

Bradley Cooper

TogetherParentsSomethingBeen

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