Jean Jacques Rousseau Famous Quotes & Sayings

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did. — Olga Kurylenko

Light is what we are called to preach. Our lord and saviour called himself light of the world. — Sunday Adelaja

By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought. — Robert Greene

Leap, and the net appears. — Julia Cameron

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family's had to suffer for that, that I haven't done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon. — Josh Alan Friedman

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies. — Gautama Buddha

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils. — John Dryden

Reyes," I said, raising a hand to his cheek, "no matter what happens, I love you."
His brows knitted for just a moment before he answered. "I love you more."
"Nope. Wanna wrestle for it?"
"For?"
"The championship. Who loves who more?"
He glanced up as though in thought, then whispered so quietly I barely heard him, "You are so going down. — Darynda Jones

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And her smile isn't fake. It's open and loving and I know she probably smiles like that at everybody, but it feels like that smile was meant just for me. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn