Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Topics

PeopleLittleFaultsPersuadeLarge

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Jennifer Gilmore

HopeLieJoyPeopleSaySeriously

It's so important, after a song is finished, to go to sleep and listen to the song with fresh ears the next day. It's sometimes a traumatic event. And playing it for someone else for the first time - that is the most nerve-wracking thing of all. But we learn so much.

Robert Lopez

TimeDaySleepSongLearnSomeone

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

Matt Dillon

CrazyThinkKnowKindSounds

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

NatureGreatMountainsStormAir

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

Jean Piaget

TimeRiseHandIndividualGiveMost

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

Rob Lowe

FameHumanNaturalHuman Beings

My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.

Rupi Kaur

HeartDoneNothingBreathingChanged

It's been awesome going indie. I don't need to be on a major label. I love not having to walk into a specific radio person's office to try to convince someone to play my songs. At the end of the day, it's more work, but I've discovered that I like to get my hands dirty.

Mat Kearney

WorkLoveWalkDayEndSomeone

Rejection and I are old friends.

Michaela Watkins

Old FriendsFriendsRejectionOld

As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.

Michelle Bachelet

WorkWomenPerspectiveFocusJob

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

Mitch Pileggi

LifeEducationKnowEverythingOut

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

Jay Samit

MeAngelEntrepreneurNothingMore

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