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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: french
Birth: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

Topics

Great Men Democracy Rich Hands Way

Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Joe Dempsie

People Game Fish Railway Her Raise

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

Sinead O'Connor

People Me Better Feel Being Weight

I don't really have any kind of rigorous or definite routine before I go onstage. I like to eat at least an hour or two before I go on. If I can't do that, I just wait until after. I try and drink lots of water before I go onstage.

Martina McBride

Water Wait Routine Go Kind Try

That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

Don Everly

Singing Difference Two Charm Where

Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.

Johnny Mathis

Song Think Go Christmas More Never

What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.

Diane von Furstenberg

Confidence Women Eyes Think Look Go

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

Success Responsibility Man Yourself

I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world.

Pranav Mistry

Science World Think Living Fiction

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Thomas Goodwin

Great Seed Search Privilege Virtue

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.

Justin Long

Look Career Kind Up Like Guys

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.

James Howard Kunstler

Moving Rich Create Need Two Parking

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Feel Journalism Comfortable Weekly