Rien Quotes

#1. Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.

Jo Walton

#2. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#3. Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

Boris Vian

#4. The kind aunt with whom I lived, herself the purest of beings, always told me that there was nothing she so desired for me as that I should have relations with a married woman: 'Rien ne forme un juene homme, comme une liaison avec une femme comme il faut'.{1}

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Claude Bernard

#7. La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

Sydney Samuelson

#8. Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Non, je ne regrette rien. Because you just can't regret the things you learn from.

Alyson Noel

#10. When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: "I spent my days pursuing the nothingness -le rien - it creates." My job is to create that void, that rien.
Hunting knife

Haruki Murakami

#11. Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

Jean Anouilh

#12. Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

Eustache Deschamps

#13. Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing "Non, je ne regrette rien" - which is more often than I'd like, now that I'm at university - I can't help thinking, What the hell is she talking about? I regret pretty much everything.

David Nicholls

#14. How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Emily M. Danforth

#15. Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit ... which I cannot but applaud.

Steven Erikson

#16. Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

Anthony Jeselnik

#17. As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Geoff Mulgan

#18. A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rien Dijkstra

#19. A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad.

Hassan Nasrallah

#20. But the man continuing to exclaim, "Down, Evremonde!" the face of Evremonde is for a moment turned towards him. Evremonde then sees the Spy, and looks attentively at him, and goes his way.

Charles Dickens

#21. You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.

Rachel Vincent

#22. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Kerry Cohen

#23. When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.

Rickson Gracie