Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveHateWishLovingMoreUs

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

Jil Sander

PowerWouldHadBan

If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.

Stanley Druckenmiller

PovertyYouLookKnowHardWell

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

Stella Young

MediaLongRunGamesPoorAnything

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

Trey Parker

WorkPastYouMakeExperimental

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

HumorPeopleWorryGoWillSeems

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.

Ron Shock

TogetherStoryTellUpOwnSymphony

I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.

Michelle Dean

AloneMyselfDayPeopleBelieveSee

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

Christopher Paolini

StopPersonDiggingHoleFinished

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

Brad Garlinghouse

IdeasUniverseYouLookNewGoing

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Pope John Paul II

TodayFreedomChallengeManSlavery

I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

Ryan Sheckler

LoveI AmMeNeedAlwaysAnything

I have a tendency to judge everything in its relationship to me instead of the value it has in God's eyes. I cannot judge everything solely on its good or bad effect on me.

Mother Angelica

GoodGodRelationshipEyesValueMe

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