Propre Quotes

#1. I, for instance, have a great deal of AMOUR PROPRE. I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. Chekyns upon soppes" (basically chicken on cinnamon toast) from the 1545 early Tudor cookbook A Propre Newe Booke of Cokerye: Chekyns upon soppes. Take sorel sauce a good quantitie and put in Sinamon and suger and lette it boyle and poure it upon the soppes then laie on the chekyns.

Dan Jurafsky

#4. Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

#5. We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

Charles De Leusse

#6. Follow love and it will flee;
Flee love and it will follow you.

Ann Hood

#7. It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I trust you. I've always trusted you and followed you. Even today ... nothing has changed. I trust you.

Shoko Hidaka

#9. I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

Melanie Lynskey

#10. Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

Boris Johnson

#11. Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

Kevin Allen

#12. By properly going through hardships you can develop the qualities of the successful man that is in you

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

Christopher Myers

#14. The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

#16. I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.

Joe Haldeman

#17. I think the news people no longer have any idea of what covering the news is.

Bill Maher

#18. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Connolly