Pierre Quotes

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code. ~ Pierre Trudeau

Every man of courage is a man of his word. ~ Pierre Corneille

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. ~ Leo Tolstoy

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions. ~ Georges St-Pierre

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities. ~ Abbe Pierre

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me. ~ Patrick Roy

All publicity is good publicity. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world. ~ Yvonne Pierre

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world ~ Pierre Mac Orlan

For fun, we sometimes unofficially changed our names when we crossed country borders, with such variations as Jean-Pierre and Fifi (France), Hans and Heidi (Germany and Austria), Carlos and Carlotta (Spain), Sergio and Sophia (Italy), Dominic and Nehru (Romania), and Mary and Josepf (Poland). This helped us get in the spirit of each new country. ~ Dan Krull

If we have abandoned ourselves to God, there is only one rule for us: the duty of the present moment. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it. ~ James Jean-Pierre

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration. ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible. ~ Pierre Salinger

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think ... of any man as damned ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend. ~ Pierre Trudeau

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future. ~ Pierre Trudeau

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities. ~ Danielle Pierre

Hope is not a matter of age. ~ Abbe Pierre

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Tomorrow, I'll travel,
I'll dream of adventures and gavel
the tempers, all seven,
to check if there's fire in heaven. ~ Pierre Sotér

The greater and better parts of Christendom would be very wrong, seeing themselves presently governed by princesses whose natural intelligence, seasoned by long experience of good and bad fortune both in wars and domestic matters, have put a great many kings to shame. ~ Pierre De Rasnard

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning. ~ Georges St-Pierre

There is a time when the soul lives in God, and a time when God lives in the soul. What is appropriate to one state is inconsistent with the other.

When God lives in the soul it ought to abandon itself entirely to his providence. When the soul lives in God it is obliged to procure for itself carefully and very regularly, every means it can devise by which to arrive at the divine union. The whole procedure is marked out; the readings, the examinations, the resolutions. The guide is always at hand and everything is by rule, even the hours for conversation.

When God lives in the soul it has nothing left of self, but only that which the spirit which actuates it imparts to it at each moment. Nothing is provided for the future, no road is marked out . . . No more books with marked passages for such a soul; often enough it is even deprived of a regular directior, for God allows it no other support than that which he gives it himself. Its dwelling is in darkness, forgetfulness, abandonment, death and nothingness. . .

Everything that others discover with great difficulty this soul finds in abandonment, and what they guard with care in order to be able to find it again, this soul receives at the moment there is occasion for it, and afterwards relinquishes so as to admit nothing but exactly what God desires it to have in order to live by him alone.

The former soul undertakes an infinity of good works for the glory of God, the latter is often c ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother. ~ Pierre Loti

A cockroach can't defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn't. ~ Georges St-Pierre

It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state. ~ Pierre Clastres

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up. ~ Pierre Omidyar

Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,
Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie,
Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n'a point de loi

Translated: Breath against breath warms my life.
A thousand kisses give me I pray thee.
Love says it all without number,
love knows no law. ~ Pierre De Ronsard

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

One should only permit excess with those one intends to leave soon. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. ~ Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bourdieu once noted that, if the academic field is a game in which scholars strive for dominance, then you know you have won when other scholars start wondering how to make an adjective out of your name ~ Anonymous

If my fall made you smile, you might not want to witness what's about to happen when I get up. ~ Yvonne Pierre

The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the 'external' elements of linguistics from the 'internal' elements, and, by reserving the title of linguistics for the latter, excludes from it all the investigations which establish a relationship between language and anthropology, the political history of those who speak it, or even the geography of the domain where it is spoken, because all of these things add nothing to a knowledge of language taken in itself. Given that it sprang from the autonomy attributed to language in relation to its social conditions of production, reproduction and use, structural linguistics could not become the dominant social science without exercising an ideological effect, by bestowing the appearance of scientificity on the naturalization of the products of history, that is, on symbolic objects. ~ Pierre Bourdieu

I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society. ~ Pierre Trudeau

Political citizenship has progressed, while social citizenship has regressed. ~ Pierre Rosanvallon

Patience and time conquer all things. ~ Pierre Corneille

Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things. ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States. ~ Pierre Salinger

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar! ~ Ted Anthony Roberts

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

DEPARTURE
The horizon slopes away
The days are longer
Trip
A heart hops in a cage
A bird sings
It is going to die
Another door is going to open
At the end of the corridor
Where a star
Begins to shine
A dark-haired woman
The lantern of the departing train
("Departure") ~ Pierre Reverdy

All my films hinge on the fantastic. I'm not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it's absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact recreation of it. Transposition is more or less a reflex with me. ~ Jean-Pierre Melville

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway. ~ Jean-Pierre Leaud

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. ~ Pierre Beaumarchais

Where TV lets you down, I'm discovering, is by not convincing you how things really work in the world. Like, do buses stop anywhere along the road, to pick up any kind of asshole, or do you have to be at a regular bus stop? ~ D.B.C. Pierre

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit. ~ Jean-Pierre Rives

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music. ~ Pierre Boulez

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score. ~ Pierre Page

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me. ~ Pierre Omidyar

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years! ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The things that stand out are often the oddities. ~ Pierre Salinger

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. ~ Pierre Bonnard

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador. ~ Pierre Corneille

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there. ~ Pierre Schaeffer

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The great leap was one from adaptation to, to control over the natural environment. ~ Pierre L. Van Den Berghe

I need only to be shown my mistakes and I never rest until I have retrieved them. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic. ~ Pierre Hadot

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way. ~ Pierre Boulez

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks. ~ Georges St-Pierre

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious. ~ Georges St-Pierre

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well. ~ Pierre Omidyar

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. ~ Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. ~ Pierre Bourdieu

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

The sovereign people, legislators, and reformers, see in public offices, to speak plainly, only opportunities for pecuniary advancement. And, because it regards them as a source of profit, it decrees the eligibility of citizens. For of what use would this precaution be, if there were nothing to gain by it? No one would think of ordaining that none but astronomers and geographers should be pilots, nor of prohibiting stutterers from acting at the theatre and the opera. The nation was still aping the kings: like them it wished to award the lucrative positions to its friends and flatterers. Unfortunately, and this last feature completes the resemblance, the nation did not control the list of livings; that was in the hands of its agents and representatives. They, on the other hand, took care not to thwart the will of their gracious sovereign. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Those who easily forgive invite offenses. ~ Pierre Corneille

Humanity wants no more war. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. ~ Pierre Bonnard

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. ~ Pierre De Fermat

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. ~ Pierre Bayle

Don't be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers. ~ D.B.C. Pierre

A painting that is well composed is half finished. ~ Pierre Bonnard

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Explore the hidden depths of existence and have profound and revealing experiences. ~ Jennifer Pierre

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls. ~ Pierre Coffin

Whole generations have forgotten history. ~ Pierre Salinger

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others ... The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It's a difficult path that we tread, us Indie self-publishers, but we're not alone. How many bands practicing in their dad's garage have heard of a group from the neighbourhood who got signed by a recording company? Or how many artists who love to paint, but are not really getting anywhere with it hear of someone they went to art school with being offered an exhibition in a gallery? How many chefs who love to get creative around food hear of someone else who's just landed a job with Marco Pierre White?
There's no difference between us and them. There is, however, a huge difference in how everyone else perceives the writer. And there's a huge difference between all of us – the writers, the musicians, the composers, the chefs, the dance choreographers and to a certain extent the tradesmen - and the rest of society in that no one understands us. It's a wretched dream to hope that our creativity gets recognised while our family thinks we're wasting our time when the lawn needs mowing, the deck needs painting and the bedroom needs decorating.
It's acceptable to go into the garage to tinker about with a motorbike, but it's a waste of a good Sunday afternoon if you go into the garage and practice your guitar, or sit in your study attempting to capture words that have been floating around your brain forever. ~ Karl Wiggins

They say: misfortunes and sufferings,' remarked Pierre, 'yes, but if right now, right this minute they asked me: "Would you rather be what you were before you were taken prisoner, or go through this all again?" For God's sake let me again have captivity and horse flesh! We imagine that when we are thrown out of our familiar rut all is lost, but that is only when something new and good can begin. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. I say this to you,' he added, turning to Natasha. ~ Leo Tolstoy