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Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Nicolas Chamfort

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Will More Movement Return Against

I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses.

Jill Davis

New York Space City Small Friends

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

John Bates Clark

Men Violence Strike Will More Gain

I've learned that, in many cases, people say, 'I want ground truth,' and they don't really mean it. There are warts all over this organization, as there are in many organizations, but you just have to tell truth to power and let the chips fall where they may.

John F. Kelly

Truth Power People Organization You

I'm not interested in world domination. I'm interested in running a nice little brand that takes care of its own and does really good work.

John Landgraf

Work Good World Good Work Brand Own

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

John McCarthy

Survival Experiences Institution

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

John Henry Newman

Soar Never Content Ground Must Sure

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Anna Faris

Job Woman Longevity First Hard Next

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Quality More Because Like Than He

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Steve Chabot

Energy Help House Down Nothing Oil

I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.

Troian Bellisario

School Baby Acting First Something

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Tony Campolo

Communication Influence Political

The challenge is always to find the good place to end the book. The rule I follow with myself is that every book should end where the next book would logically begin. I know that some readers wish that literally all of the threads would be neatly tied off and snipped, but life just doesn't work that way.

Robin Hobb

Life Work Good Myself Challenge End