Claude Lalanne Quotes

#1. Hello, Jean-Claude," I said. "Greetings, ma petite," he said. His voice was like fur, rich, soft, vaguely obscene, as if just talking to him was something dirty. Maybe it was. "Don't call me ma petite," I said. He smiled slightly, not a hint of fang. "As you like. #Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out."
"So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?"
I nodded. "That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable. #Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. Education made us what we are. #Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius

#4. How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple. #Quote by Jack LaLanne

#5. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.' #Quote by Claude Pepper

#6. A good impression is lost so quickly ... #Quote by Claude Monet

#7. Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism. #Quote by Claude Bernard

#8. To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. #Quote by Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

#9. I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. #Quote by Claude Monet

#10. The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. #Quote by Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

#11. This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy. #Quote by Claude Louis Berthollet

#12. Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. #Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

#13. Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. #Quote by Claude C. McDonald

#14. The Baroness Lindenberg, as I found afterwards, had long been accustomed to sacrifice the interests of others to her own, and her wish to send Claude to Strasbourg blinded her to the danger of the undertaking. Accordingly, #Quote by Matthew Gregory Lewis

#15. It is better to have done something than to have been someone. #Quote by Claude Monet

#16. People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America. #Quote by Claude Lelouch

#17. I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people. #Quote by Claude Chabrol

#18. But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. #Quote by Claude Debussy

#19. We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it. #Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker

#20. If we must die, O let us nobly die. #Quote by Claude McKay

#21. An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973. #Quote by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

#22. I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. #Quote by Claude Monet

#23. Beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a low suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional, dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist. there might be a line of spaced trees silhouetted against the horizon, and hot still noons above a wilderness of clover, and claude lorrain clouds inscribed remotely into misty azure with only their cumulus part conscpicuous against the neutral swoon of the background. or again, it might be a stern el greco horizon, pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer, and all around alternating strips of quick-silverish water and harsh green corn, the whole arrangement opening like a fan, somewhere in kansas. #Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

#24. Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it." #Quote by Jack LaLanne

#25. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. #Quote by Claude Pepper

#26. All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost. #Quote by Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#27. The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas. #Quote by Jean-Claude Trichet

#28. Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher. #Quote by Claude Martin

#29. There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers. #Quote by Jean-Claude Van Damme

#30. George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man
he loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain. Some people, when they get to 60 years old have no interests anymore, have no friends left. George Burns was busy all the time doing something. #Quote by Jack LaLanne

#31. Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began. #Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

#32. Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm. #Quote by Claude Maxwell MacDonald

#33. People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making. #Quote by Jack LaLanne

#34. I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts. #Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker