Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.

Marquis de Lafayette

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MeParisNothingOwnPainfulBeing

I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.

Jessi Colter

HappyLittleScaredBigBiteVery

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

John C. Calhoun

SupportPeopleRealityOthersPay

I don't cry easily.

John Grant

CryEasily

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

MeThinkVotingChoicePersonal

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

John Updike

GodFireSkyImaginationWarRed

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

Steven Gerrard

FuturePeopleControlWantTalk

I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.

Shiri Appleby

ConfidenceStartFeelI CanKnow

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Tony Robbins

FutureRichThinkWillMatterLead

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Mary Astell

PowerPeopleTreatGreatestGet

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

ShadowWorldVanityPlayNothing

I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

Mirko Cro Cop

FutureStepThinkToo MuchGoWant

Right next to my bedroom, Dad made a chin-up bar with a rowing machine and a treadmill. From there, as years went by, we were able to get a bit of funding, and Dad got all these people involved and built a gym at home.

Joseph Parker

HomePeopleGymBedroomRightBar

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