Paul Valery Quotes

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945

Topics

ScienceSpringDiscoveryUsParadox

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

Andrew Young

BlackBetterWhiteComfortableMore

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

John le Carre

OpinionFrustrationVoiceAmerican

Every day I get more and more honest.

Jeff Probst

DayEvery DayMoreHonestGetEvery

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

John Zimmerman

ChangeIceForeverFourMinutes

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Stephen King

HelpRealUpUsMakeCope

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Gold

FoodYourselfControlSickYouEat

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

Tom Graves

EasyWayTaxesOutEasy Way

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Rob Walton

SportsWorldYearOldIndustryFilm

I hope I die before I get old.

Roger Daltrey

HopeDieOldGetBefore

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

Robert Vaughn

DirectionThoughtCareerNeverGoing

What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

Brett Gelman

YourselfStrongerYouDownWillGet

I'm not picky; I'll get it how I can take it. Submission, KO - whatever it is, if it has me winning, I'll take it.

Brian Ortega

MeWinningI CanWhateverTakeGet

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