All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Solo si entendemos, podremos cuidar. Solo si cuidamos, podremos ayudar.”
“Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes. Le devin du village”
“All that time is lost which might be better employed. As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel”
“L'accent est l'âme du discours. Accent is the soul of language ; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”
“English translation as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 2.”
“An honest man nearly always thinks justly. As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 277.”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty , nor liberty without virtue . As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 301.”
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,”
“Chère amie, ne savez”
“Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse”
“Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560”
“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom . L'imagination ( Imagination: A Psychological Critique )”
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. L'âge de raison ( The Age of Reason )”
“He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well”
“On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ,”
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. Existentialism and Human Emotions”
“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good , and nothing can be good for us without being good for all. Existentialism and Human Emotions”
“Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes,”
“Marxism and Subjectivity”
“A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. Refusing the Nobel Prize , New York Times”
“What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal.... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. On Alberto Giacometti 's work, Situations , in Braziller”
“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent . And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘ reader ,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.. Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper . September 2013”
“That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better. Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors 17 September, 2013.”
“We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A. ], … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud. Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future”
“You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way. Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future”
“If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting. What Amazon's Jeff Bezos thinks about Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker (BoingBoing) (dubbed "The Bezos Principle" by Walt Mossberg ) June 2016”
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon”
“Your margin is my opportunity. Amazon's Impending Invasion Of Banking”
“Jeff Bezos thinks that to save the planet we'll need to move all heavy industry to space”
“Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains his famous one”