Top 100 Maurice Quotes
#1. I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Maurice Gibb
#3. Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
Maurice Sendak
#4. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.
Maurice Hall
#5. Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.
Maurice Strong
#6. Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#8. To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#10. It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body's sexuality
Maurice Godelier
#11. The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#12. Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#13. Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
Terry Pratchett
#14. I consider my childhood a gift," Maurice once told me. "It happened to me so I could learn the right way to raise my children.
Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
#15. If at the center and so to speak the kernel of Being there is an infinite infinite, every partial being directly or indirectly presupposes it, and is in return really or eminently contained in it. All the relationships we can have to Being must be simultaneously founded upon it.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#17. This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.
Maurice Duplessis
#18. Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#20. The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood - the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
Maurice Sendak
#21. I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
Maurice Blanchot
#22. Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
Drew Barrymore
#23. Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Maurice Levy
#24. It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to negotiate in good faith under the UN Charter, and to denounce war agitation particularly by the media.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#26. There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#27. I took pains to relate to him many of my pleasantest adventures, by field and by flood, with the longbow.
J. Maurice Thompson
#28. When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play ... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
Robin Gibb
#29. You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
Maurice Greene
#30. The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.
Maurice Francis Egan
#31. Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
Maurice Saatchi
#32. One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.
Maurice Chevalier
#33. Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#34. Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
Maurice Saatchi
#36. I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
Maurice Sendak
#37. If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
Maurice Greene
#38. Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
Maurice Gibb
#40. I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.
Maurice Druon
#41. The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#43. No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.
Maurice Gibb
#46. Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?
Maurice Flanagan
#48. I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.
Christopher Meledandri
#49. Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice
Maurice Sendak
#53. The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#54. In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.
Maurice Strong
#55. The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#56. My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
Maurice Sendak
#57. When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#58. After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong
#59. There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
Maurice Sendak
#60. Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#61. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
Maurice Blanchot
#62. When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.
Maurice Samuel
#63. What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
Dinah Sheridan
#64. With Maurice suddenly going, I realised ... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.
Robin Gibb
#65. Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#66. We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.
Maurice Gibb
#68. It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.
Maurice Flanagan
#69. A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.
Maurice Allais
#70. I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.
Maurice Gibb
#71. All artists are now free to express their own personality.
Maurice Denis
#72. Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#73. If the sculptor uses stone and if the road builder also uses stone, the first uses it in a way that it is not used, consumed, negated by usage, but affirmed, revealed in its obscurity, as a road that leads only to itself.
Maurice Blanchot
#74. If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#75. To name the cat is, if you like, to make it into a non-cat, a cat that has ceased to exist, has ceased to be a living cat, but this does not mean one is making it into a dog, or even a non-dog.
Maurice Blanchot
#76. In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
Maurice Samuel
#77. I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.
Maurice Sendak
#78. For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Maurice Ravel
#79. All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.
Maurice Allais
#80. Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.
Jacqueline Winspear
#81. Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must feel that believers of all faiths support them.
Maurice Motamed
#82. Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.
Maurice Gibb
#83. You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#84. DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.
Maurice Wilkins
#86. Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#87. A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Mo Johnston
#88. Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
Maurice Greene
#89. I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
Maurice Druon
#90. You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.
Maurice Samuel
#91. There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
Maurice Switzer
#93. All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#94. We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#95. I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#96. I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.
Maurice Allais
#99. We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.
Maurice Strong
#100. I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
Maurice Sendak
