Top 39 Michelet Quotes
#1. Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and that is why, on the other hand, all the minds which accept the world and recognize its irony and indifference are Voltairean.
Voltaire
#3. In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
Maurice Greene
#4. Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges ... ?
Jules Michelet
#6. I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.
Stephanie Nielson
#7. Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
Jules Michelet
#8. Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
Jules Michelet
#9. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.
James Joyce
#10. Our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#11. What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
Jules Michelet
#12. The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
Jules Michelet
#13. Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
Jules Michelet
#14. It was exactly as he'd thought it would be, like the first time and the millionth time all at once, like being wide awake, like losing his balance. Only this time, it wasn't just him; this time, they were losing their balance together.
Jennifer E. Smith
#15. I really cannot tolerate people who always find excuses or reasons why certain things won't work. Find reasons and solutions to make it work.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#16. Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet
#17. There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.
Taylor Swift
#18. The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
Jules Michelet
#20. Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.
Jules Michelet
#21. Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband
Jules Michelet
#22. Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
Jules Michelet
#23. Say a Hail Mary for me. I could use some forgiveness.
Ellen Hopkins
#25. Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
Jules Michelet
#26. Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules Michelet
#27. Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
Jules Michelet
#29. The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules Michelet
#31. At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
Jules Michelet
#32. He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
Jules Michelet
#33. A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
Bruce Tulgan
#35. Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
Jules Michelet
#36. What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
Jules Michelet
#38. How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
Jules Michelet
#39. Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
Jules Michelet
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