Nous Quotes

#1. Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Jean Anouilh

#2. The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

Charles De Leusse

#3. Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'huy?
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!

Henry Austin Dobson

#5. All you need is patience and a bit of nous.

M.L. Stedman

#6. We must not stint
Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing.

William Shakespeare

#7. Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
[Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#8. I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

Johnny Marr

#9. It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant)

Charles De Leusse

#10. The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.

Veronique Vienne

#11. Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#12. We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul est la cible)

Charles De Leusse

#13. In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

Alexander Pope

#14. Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#15. O tyrant love, when held by you,
We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#16. Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.

Sophie Barthes

#17. Today in the early Twenty-First Century, we Americans are once again faced with the same basic choice: liberty or tyranny, freedom or servitude. However, the attitude of far too many Americans towards our problems is one of both ignorance and apathy: "I don't know and I don't care.

Chris Hambleton

#18. There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

John Starks

#19. There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don't realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.

Rick Warren

#20. Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers.

Jerry Costello

#21. I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

Lin Shaye

#22. Man is indeed an object miraculously vain, various and wavering. It is difficult to found a judgement on him which is steady and uniform.

Michel De Montaigne