Pierre Jeanneret Quotes

#1. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. #Quote by Pierre Charron

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

#3. All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes. #Quote by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#4. If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself. #Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#5. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. #Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#6. It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose. #Quote by Georges St-Pierre

#7. In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good. #Quote by Pierre Omidyar

#8. I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities. #Quote by Abbe Pierre

#9. It feels good to get sacks and to know I can do it. #Quote by Jason Pierre-Paul

#10. It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent. #Quote by Pierre Charron

#11. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. #Quote by Pierre Corneille

#12. And another effect of the scholastic illusion is seen when people describe resistance to domination in the language of consciousness - as does the whole Marxist tradition and also the feminist theorists who, giving way to habits of thought, expect political liberation to come from the 'raising of consciousness' - ignoring the extraordinary inertia which results from the inscription of social structures in bodies, for lack of a dispositional theory of practices. While making things explicit can help, only a thoroughgoing process of countertraining, involving repeated exercises, can, like an athlete's training, durably transform habitus. #Quote by Pierre Bourdieu

#13. It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the same time as her sense of liberty. [Written from Peking, October 1945, on the eve of departure, after having been stuck there since the war began.] #Quote by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#14. But one thing I beg of you, look on me as your friend; and if you want some help, advice, or simply want to open your heart to someone- not now, but when things are clearer in your heart- think of me.' He took her hand and kissed it. 'I shall be happy, if I am able ... ' Pierre was confused.
'Don't speak to me like that; I'm not worth it!' cried Natasha ...
'Hush, hush your whole life lies before you,' he said to her.
'Before me! No! All is over for me,' she said, with shame and humiliation.
'All over?' he repeated. 'If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, best man in the world, and if I were free I would be on my knees this minute to beg for your hand and your love. #Quote by Leo Tolstoy

#15. At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art. #Quote by Pierre Soulages

#16. The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. #Quote by Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#17. When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally. #Quote by Yvonne Pierre

#18. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. #Quote by Georges St-Pierre

#19. For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care? The example of Pierre Curiee, and of others, shows that they have none of these things; and that more often, before they can secure possible working conditions, they have to exhaust their youth and their powers in daily anxieties. Our society, in which reigns an eager desire for riches and luxury, does not understand the value of science. It does not realize that science is a most precious part of its moral patrimony. Nor does it take sufficient cognizance of the fact that science is at the base of all the progress that lightens the burden of life and lessens its suffering. Neither public powers nor private generosity actually accord to science and to scientists the support and the subsidies indispensable to fully effective work. #Quote by Marie Curie

#20. I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963. #Quote by Pierre Salinger

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

#22. The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves. Is this association practicable, and supposing that it were established, would it be likely to last? #Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. Indeed, if to be in love is not to be able to live without possessing that person one desires, to sacrifice to her one's time, one's pleasures, one's life, then I am really in love. #Quote by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#24. What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance. #Quote by Pierre Bonnard

#25. In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. #Quote by Pierre De Coubertin

#26. When we talk about books ... we are talking about our approximate recollections of books ... What we preserve of the books we read - whether we take notes or not, and even if we sincerely believe we remember them faithfully - is in truth no more than a few fragments afloat, like so many islands, on an ocean of oblivion ... We do not retain in memory complete books identical to the books remembered by everyone else, but rather fragments surviving from partial readings, frequently fused together and further recast by our private fantasies. ... What we take to be the books we have read is in fact an anomalous accumulation of fragments of texts, reworked by our imagination and unrelated to the books of others, even if these books are materially identical to ones we have held in our hands. #Quote by Pierre Bayard

#27. In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that. #Quote by Pierre Boulez

#28. A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. #Quote by Pierre Corneille

#29. He got up, wishing to go around, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox right over Helene, behind her back. Helene moved forward so as to make room and, smiling, glanced around. As always at soirees, she was wearing a gown in the fashion of the time, quite open in front and back. Her bust, which had always looked like marble to Pierre, was now such a short distance from him that he could involuntarily make out with his nearsighted eyes the living loveliness of her shoulders and neck, and so close to his lips that he had only to lean forward a little to touch her. He sensed the warmth of her body, the smell of her perfume, and the creaking of her corset as she breathed. He saw not her marble beauty, which made one with her gown, he saw and sensed all the loveliness of her body, which was merely covered by clothes. And once he had seen it, he could not see otherwise, as we cannot return to a once-exposed deception. #Quote by Leo Tolstoy

#30. Political citizenship has progressed, while social citizenship has regressed. #Quote by Pierre Rosanvallon

#31. Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign. #Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#32. A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.] #Quote by Pierre Corneille

#33. Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though. #Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

#34. I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings. #Quote by Pierre Clostermann

#35. We live in a generation that applauds the bad more than it commends the good. #Quote by Pierre Alex Jeanty

#36. When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it. #Quote by Pierre Alechinsky

#37. Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. #Quote by Pierre Loti

#38. The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. #Quote by Pierre Bayle

#39. The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb. #Quote by D.B.C. Pierre

#40. We have to fight the past to survive. #Quote by Pierre Boulez

#41. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. #Quote by Pierre Abelard

#42. The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater. #Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#43. Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. #Quote by Pierre Boulez

#44. Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican."
A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs -- no matter under what form of government -- may call himself a republican. Even kings are republicans."
Well! You are a democrat?"
No."
What! "you would have a monarchy?"
No."
A Constitutionalist?"
God forbid."
Then you are an aristocrat?"
Not at all!"
You want a mixed form of government?"
Even less."
Then what are you?"
I am an anarchist."


Oh! I understand you; you speak satirically. This is a hit at the government."


By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me. #Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#45. Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye. #Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

#46. Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it. #Quote by Jason Pierre-Paul

#47. The history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen. #Quote by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#48. *Take my advice, do like me and get yourself another lover. This is good advice, in fact it's very good advice: if you don't like it, it's not my fault.*

*Farewell my angle. I've enjoyed having you and I've no regrets leaving you. I may come back to you. That's the of the world. It's not my fault.* #Quote by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos