Alexandre Dumas Quotes

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870

Topics

RestSometimesTakeBecausePrefer

If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.

John O. Brennan

FaceTryingPersonCitizenWillHe

I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

Jeff Bennett

AnimationOutTakeStartedOffJust

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Stephen Ambrose

PeopleBuildingsMoreHighDestroyed

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

Stacey D'Erasmo

TechnologyAgeTimeTravelSleep

In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn't catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened.

Tracee Ellis Ross

EducationDiversityEqualityStrong

We are the playthings of the gods.

Roger Ebert

Gods

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga

IdentityPeopleMeAssumptionsOwn

What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.

Josh Tillman

I AmCrazyCapitalismIsolationSee

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

FreedomPowerLightDemocracyYou

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

Brunello Cucinelli

EthicsCapitalismBelieveMorals

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

Arjen Robben

BetterKindIndividualGuyPlayers

At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.

Austan Goolsbee

GoodTimeAmericanSaidSayEurope

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