Jean Baptiste Quotes

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy! ... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

So pink and swollen,Jean-Baptiste whispered,his fingers easing her lips apart,one brushing over the sensitive bud of her clit. ~ Laura Wright

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates ... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment. ~ Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}

Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it. ~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament ... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Who am I? Who am I?"
"You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs. You're a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; you volunteer for a food kitchen. You're a swimmer. You're a baker. You're a cook. You're a reader. You have a beautiful voice, though you never sing anymore. You're an excellent pianist. You're an art collector. You write me lovely messages when I'm away. You're patient. You're generous. You're the best listener I know. You're the smartest person I know, in every way. You're the bravest person I know, in every way. You're a lawyer. You're the chair of the litigation department at Rosen Pritchard and Klein. You love your job; you work hard at it. You're a mathematician. You're a logician. You've tried to teach me, again and again. You were treated horribly. You came out on the other end. You were always you."

"And who are you?"
"I'm Willem Ragnarsson. And I will never let you go. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites ... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance. ~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. ~ Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing. ~ Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist ... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Art is nature as seen through a temperament. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so. ~ Andrew Miller

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé avoir' [it is easy to see]. ~ W.W. Rouse Ball

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students. ~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

By the clock of St Jean Baptiste, that dream remained scarce fifteen minutes
a brief space, but sufficing to wring my whole frame with unknown anguish; to confer a nameless experience that had the hue, the mien, the terror, the very tone of a visitation from eternity. Between twelve and one that night a cup was forced to my lips, black, strong, strange, drawn from no well, but filled up seething from a bottomless and boundless sea. Suffering, brewed in temporal or calculable measure, and mixed for mortal lips, tastes not as this suffering tasted. ~ Charlotte Bronte

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.

{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot

A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it! ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

And he sent the gentle sun of his smile upon the land; whereupon to a bud, the hosts of blossoms unfolded their glory, from one end of his empire unto the other, creating a single rainbowed carpet woven from myriad precious capsules of fragrance. ~ Peter Süskind

The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot

Never lose the first impression which has moved you. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Just as Jean-Baptiste can hear without ears, his father can become deaf at will. ~ Patricia Cornwell

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor". ~ Albert Camus

First Law
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.
Second Law
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Youth is life's beautiful moment. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable ... ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. ~ Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

… Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

{Referring to Joseph Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics.} ~ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ~ Ernst W. Mayr

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. ~ Jean-Baptiste Colbert

The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished? ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride. ~ Jean-Baptiste Chautard

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values ... and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I love the mountains, the light. I'm a real light junkie. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced. ~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I love a bit of passion. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood
that is to say, without a constituted religion
unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman? ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire