Quotes About Emilie Du Chatelet

#1. As we walk, I know without looking where Dare is. It's like I'm a planet and he's my axis ... or my sun. I feel his heat, I feel his presence, and I ache to lean into it, to fold into him, to absorb his strength.

Courtney Cole

#2. Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

Emilie Du Chatelet

#3. If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

Emilie Du Chatelet

#4. Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

Emilie Du Chatelet

#5. The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels (which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later).

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

Thurston Moore

#7. It's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Paulo Coelho

#8. Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

Mary McCarthy

#9. Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

Emilie Du Chatelet

#10. I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

Drew Brees

#11. Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Ian McKellen

#13. Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

Emilie Du Chatelet

#14. I want my life to be easier than this. I mean, I know I'm not some starving kid who has to wash clothes in the Ganges for a nickel, but today just sucks.

A.S. King

#15. To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...

Emilie Du Chatelet

#16. Living by the beach means feeling guilty about never going to the beach.

Dov Davidoff

#17. A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche