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We've found 105 quotes for 'tour de force' (0.105 seconds):



"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)" »Comte DeBussy-Rabutin 
"La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business." »Paul Valery 
"Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)" »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire 
"Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world." »Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." »J Danforth Quayle 
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." »Patrick Henry 
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." »Ansel Adams 
"I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't." »Victor Borge 
"force overcome by force." »Cicero 
"Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - de Tranquillitate Animi" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
"Todos Somos Unos Hijos de La Verga" »Rubenacres & Allenacres 
"Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination" »Mark Twain 
"The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita." »Dante Alighieri 
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks 
"English is a funny language..... de(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life" »Siddharth Astir 
"John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria" »So I Married an Axe Murderer 
"There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together." »Sir V Pritchett 
"The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - de Tranquillitate Animi" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
"Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto de corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." »Anonymous 
"Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.)" »Caspar de Aguilar 
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." »Zora Neale Hurston 
"All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." »Muriel Spark 
"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom" »Laurie Anderson 
"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky 
"By force of arms." »Cicero 
"force has no place where there is need of skill." »Herodotus 
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." »Aesop 
"Our patience will achieve more than our force." »Edmund Burke 
"You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money." »Jewish Proverb 
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." »Albert Einstein 
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