Riqueti De Mirabeau Quotes

#1. If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#2. There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#3. We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#5. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard

#6. Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#7. The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.

John Flavel

#8. Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#9. Religion is no more national than conscience.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#10. To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#11. Not kings alone
the people, too, have their flatterers.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#12. I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#13. The little wisdom that the world possesses, was introduced by lunatics.

Honore-Gabriel Riqueti De Mirabeau

#14. The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#15. In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#16. Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Don Cooper

#17. Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#18. Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#19. Hermione was just the same as his answer to Ron. "I'm not bothering him with this. Like you just said, it's not a big deal.

J.K. Rowling

#20. It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

#21. Nothing is impossible to the man who will

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#22. Never let me hear that foolish word again.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#23. I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#24. Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#25. When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#26. War is the national industry of Prussia.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#27. Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau