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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Gratitude Great Men Desire Nothing

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Good People Enough Looks Know Fame

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

Future Freedom Children Health Value

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Swimming Cat Rare Turkish

Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.

Music Healing Real Truthful Should

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

Back Play Always Out Hanging Kids

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.

Live Together People World Accept

After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.

Luis Federico Leloir

Work Returning Liver Cambridge Some

Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.

Life Heart Pain Rest Loss Moments

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

I Am Where Well Chief Approval Role

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

Jonathan Glazer

Ideas Start Think Thinking Language

You don't sign up to 'Trainspotting' expecting glamour.

Jonny Lee Miller

You Glamour Up Sign Expecting

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Desire More Seen Something Wanting

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