Mirabeau B Quotes

#1. If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#2. There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#3. None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#4. When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

Ruth Simmons

#5. Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#6. Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,
myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Georges Danton

#7. You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your toilet.

Bram Stoker

#8. Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#9. Religion is no more national than conscience.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#10. To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#11. Po looked at her, but he didn't see her. His eyes snapped, silver ice and gold fire.

Kristin Cashore

#12. Not kings alone
the people, too, have their flatterers.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#13. I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#14. The little wisdom that the world possesses, was introduced by lunatics.

Honore-Gabriel Riqueti De Mirabeau

#15. The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#16. In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#17. Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#18. I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

Michelle Moran

#19. Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy,

Mirabeau B. Lamar

#20. Obedience requires knowing God's word, His expectations and then actually living them out.

Sara Dormon

#21. The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

Tito Colliander

#22. What is a nation without a mother tongue?

Jack Edwards

#23. Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#24. I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

Marie Antoinette

#25. You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

Christian Morgenstern

#26. It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#27. Nothing is impossible to the man who will

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#28. Never let me hear that foolish word again.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#29. I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#30. Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#31. When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#32. The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

Mirabeau B. Lamar

#33. She nodded, but Tiny was still holding her arm, and he asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to do this, Beau? It sounds painful."
"Not as painful as the turn," she said solemnly.
"And I'd go through this and a lot more to keep you as my life mate.

Lynsay Sands

#34. I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

Eric Avery

#35. War is the national industry of Prussia.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#36. Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Rosanne Cash

#37. Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau