Mirabeau Quotes

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

Michelle Moran

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

Marie Antoinette

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

Georges Danton

#4. Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#5. The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ...

Martin Amis

#6. Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#7. I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

Kirsten Dunst

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

Mirabeau B. Lamar

#9. 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

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

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#11. Nothing is impossible to the man who will

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. War is the national industry of Prussia.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#19. Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

Diana Gabaldon

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

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#21. I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

David D. Burns

#22. Religion is no more national than conscience.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#24. 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

#25. What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

Frederick Lenz

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#28. A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Frederick Buechner

#29. So it's fate then?" I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, "Us being together?"
"Absolutely," Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.
Who was I to argue with Fate?

E.J. Stevens

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

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

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

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

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#33. Do I strike you as a man with a miserable inferiority complex?"
"Good God, no!"
"Only that kind of man spends his life running after women.

Ayn Rand

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

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#35. 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

#36. We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.

Kenneth Oppel

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

Honore-Gabriel Riqueti De Mirabeau

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

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#39. Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

Richard Yates