Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

Andrew Greeley

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I haven't got muscles, and I don't live in West Hollywood.

Andrew Haigh

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I see people detained for simple INS violations.

Sibel Edmonds

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When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Tom Waits

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The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

Robert Zubrin

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I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Romesh Gunesekera

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What I want is to be well-respected around all ages and all around the world.

Lucky Blue Smith

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I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.

Chelsea Peretti

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Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

Chris Ware

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I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

Colleen Ballinger

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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.

Brett Young

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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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