Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Nicolas Chamfort

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

Topics

LifeLiveThinkMoreMiserableAct

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

John McEnroe

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I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

Mary Crosby

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When a large financial institution is allowed to fail, you put in jeopardy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.

Jose Angel Gurria

PeopleFinancialYouFailJeopardy

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Don Lemon

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Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

Douglas Alexander

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There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

Clayton M. Christensen

MoneyQualityInternetTryingYou

A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.

Bradley Walsh

GoodBadWayRoundMakeComics

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

Bob Keeshan

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Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Phyllis Schlafly

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One is often guilty by being too just.

Pierre Corneille

GuiltyBeingJustOftenToo

I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

Kendall Jenner

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And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

Kristen Johnston

GreatBe DifferentYouWantSame

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