Top 100 Quotes About Clement
#1. I felt a confusion unspeakable at again seeing him, from the recollection of the ridotto adventure: nor did my situation lessen it; for I was seated between Madame Duval and Sir Clement, who seemed as little as myself to desire Lord Orville's presence. Indeed,
Fanny Burney
#2. Clement Attlee, who looked like a sadistic sanitary inspector...
Tony Benn
#4. I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#5. Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
Saadi
#6. Mankind is nothing more than a parasitic tick gorging himself on temporary plenty while the seas are low and the climate is clement. But the present arrangement of land and sea will change, and with it our brief supremacy.
Richard Fortey
#7. It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.
Agatha Christie
#8. How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
Barbara W. Tuchman
#9. The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
Amelie Mauresmo
#10. To Sir Clement, my Lord," said I, "attribute nothing. He is the last man in the world who would have any influence over my conduct.
Fanny Burney
#11. Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
Walter Darby Bannard
#12. He was shivering like a Wicklow sheepdog in a snowy yard, though the weather was officially 'clement'.
The first layer of clothing was his jacket, the second his shirt, the third his long-johns, the fourth his share of lice, the fifth his share of fear.
Sebastian Barry
#13. The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'."
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#14. To have faith - that a lover would be constant and life clement - this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations.
Chris Cleave
#15. A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
#16. You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? - Clement Stone
Joseph Grenny
#17. If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
#18. It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
Martin Rees
#21. Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.
David Clement-Davies
#22. That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#23. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok
#24. He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
Clement Clarke Moore
#25. The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort
Clement Greenberg
#26. The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
Clement Attlee
#27. Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.
W. Clement Stone
#29. No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement Attlee
#30. From what I could tell, whenever an archangel or a burning bush turns up, it's generally not to say, 'Hey, go out and have a happy and uncomplicated life.' (p. 205, Highway to Hell).
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#31. Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.
Clement Mok
#32. He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.
Pope Clement I
#33. It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.
Olivier Clement
#34. Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement
#35. Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.
Clement Greenberg
#36. If there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes
W. Clement Stone
#37. If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
Clement Attlee
#38. Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again
David Clement-Davies
#39. Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.
Pope Clement I
#40. Gardening ... demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
Gilles Clement
#41. The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
Clement Of Alexandria
#42. They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.
Jemaine Clement
#43. If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit
Clement Freud
#44. Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.
Clement Of Alexandria
#45. Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone
#46. A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.
Clement Attlee
#47. If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
W. Clement Stone
#48. Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.
Clement Of Alexandria
#49. They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.
Blaize Clement
#50. I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#51. The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
David Clement-Davies
#53. If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
W. Clement Stone
#54. Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
Clement Freud
#56. The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!
Clement Of Alexandria
#57. I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
Clement Greenberg
#58. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
#60. If you were quiet about something then it never happened. Someone would write a song about it for sure. Everything you're not supposed to know about, or talk about, eventually turned up in a song. Some
Jennifer Clement
#61. The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
Hal Clement
#64. The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial ... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.
Clement Greenberg
#65. If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.
W. Clement Stone
#66. Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.
Clement Greenberg
#68. The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.
Clement Attlee
#69. It didn't matter, because he was an employee of a criminal enterprise and I was an FBI consultant and, oh yeah, technically kidnapped and probably in the throes of some kind of Stockholm syndrome.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#70. There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ...
Clement Freud
#71. Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know ... Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.
David Clement-Davies
#72. I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
Clement Attlee
#73. He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. You don't know me, princess.
Some people have reasons for doing things, and don't just go wherever they're told or drift whichever
way they're pushed.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#74. I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone
#75. The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
Clement Greenberg
#76. To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
Clement Freud
#77. Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.
Clement Greenberg
#78. He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
Clement Of Alexandria
#80. If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.
Clement Freud
#81. Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!'
On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'
Clement Clarke Moore
#84. The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
Clement Attlee
#85. Do not be a product of your environment; instead be the creator of the product in your environment
Justice Clement
#86. When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
Clement Attlee
#87. Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins ...
Clement Greenberg
#88. Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.
David Clement-Davies
#90. We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.
Clement Of Alexandria
#92. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust
Pope Clement I
#93. How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.
Pope Clement I
#94. Diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.
Pope Clement XIII
#95. The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
W. Clement Stone
#96. I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.
Clement Greenberg
#98. The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
Clement Of Alexandria
#100. I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.
Jemaine Clement
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