Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838

Topics

GoodFriendWaterFishingSheOut

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

Jim James

LoveGoodGodFeelReachYou

Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.

Jesse Johnson

MusicSchoolLovedDoingActing

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Jeremy Grantham

CapitalismPlanningBetterWayNever

Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.

Andrew Shaffer

GrowIgnoreHatersNobodyMove On

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

Simon Schama

HistoryThinkSmokeRightAbout

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

Michelle Shocked

MistakeThinkPerfectionistI Think

What's weird is to hear someone else talking about your mannerisms.

Joseph Morgan

WeirdSomeoneTalkingYourHear

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Dolly Parton

WorkDayPeopleNightWeekStage

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

Devon Cajuste

EyesWorldOutBeingYourStanford

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

Claude Chabrol

LawFirstStudyStartedLicence

Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.

Chrystia Freeland

CultureThinkWrongDangerousSay

It's not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.

Anthony Scaramucci

JobSlowDownTryPresidentHim

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