Madame Marie Anne du Deffand quote: "The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]"

What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND

The distance is nothing it is only the first step that costs
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND

Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
MARQUISE DU DEFFAND

The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
MME. DU DEFFAND

La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte. - Distance doesn't matter; it is ...
MARQUISE DU DEFFAND

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...
MADAME MARIE CURIE

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MADAME MARIE CURIE

It's not across the board but it will apply to almost all of GM's mid-sized cars,
ANNE MARIE

Community-based enrollment is the true success story of New York's program, and it has changed peopl...
ANNE MARIE

It has definitely gone more upscale in recent years, and some of the smaller family owned places hav...
ANNE MARIE

There are a lot of things that have changed with the way people use libraries, ... We really need to...
ANNE MARIE

I ran away when I was 18 and now I still can't stop hurting myself because of the pain he caused me,...
ANNE MARIE

It's not something you have to do five days a week. It's very flexible.
ANNE MARIE

We cannot comment on speculation. I have not heard that,
ANNE MARIE

There were strong doubts about whether this was an appropriate thing for regional companies to be do...
ANNE MARIE

It has been a pleasure to work with Cablevision and combine our talents and resources to create soft...
ANNE MARIE

We are blessed, ... Many people back in New Orleans, they don't have anything. We feel gratitude for...
ANNE MARIE

[After the viewing of the film, the crowd once again headed to The Fly for an after party. The atmos...
ANNE MARIE

We have not heard about any problem at our end, ... We have heard of problems with the localized fee...
ANNE MARIE

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for t...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

Abram and Antonia Chayes even redefined sovereignty itself to mean not the right to be left alone bu...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you ...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or ...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an ele...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrit...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commerci...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire nati...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You h...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, mind...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

The cost of fuel is certainly making people think twice about the amount of driving they're doing. E...
ANNE MARIE THORNTON

All commuters have to do to find a potential carpool partner is visit the web site and register them...
ANNE MARIE THORNTON

My takeaway message from the weekend is that you're hearing a real shift, ... It could not be furthe...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

I am honored to be here today at Princeton. From George Kennan and John Foster Dulles, to George Shu...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

She reflects an America in which things once thought impossible have become possible.
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

I cannot imagine a better person to launch our 75th anniversary celebrations, ... For 75 years the W...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

We are as individual Americans ashamed,
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

It's not something you have to do five days a week. It's very flexible.
ANNE MARIE THORNTON

I cannot imagine a better person to launch our 75th anniversary celebrations,
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

Of the world's 175 largest nation-states and private firms, 112 are corporations.
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

Humans pursuing deep, complete connections respond to quite different incentives from those that inf...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

Corporate anthropologist Karen Stephenson argues that though trust is the natural glue of human conn...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourse...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women ...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego a...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my studen...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can ge...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one i...
MADAME SWETCHINE

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
MADAME SWETCHINE

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
MADAME SWETCHINE

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
MADAME NECKAR

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the la...
MADAME SWETCHINE

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
MADAME SWETCHINE

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
MADAME SWETCHINE

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
MADAME SWETCHINE

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted b...
MADAME SWETCHINE

Repentance is accepted remorse.
MADAME SWETCHINE

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.
MADAME BELAZY

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
MADAME NECKAR

Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.
MADAME DUDEVANT

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to othe...
MADAME GUIZOT

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
MADAME SWETCHINE

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed...
MADAME GUIZOT

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
MADAME SWETCHINE

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
MADAME SWETCHINE

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
MADAME SWETCHINE

Youth should be a savings bank.
MADAME SWETCHINE

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand...
MADAME SWETSHINE

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. -...
MADAME SWETCHINE

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
MADAME NECKER

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy
MADAME BELAZY

He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never co...
MADAME DUDEVANT

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupi...
DU MU

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
DU FU

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscr...
DU FU

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
DU COEUR

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
DU FU

That shows that the current system is outdated. We must transform this system.
DU YING

Other than fruits, which we buy, we eat only what we grow and raise - rice and vegetables, and a pig...
DU CHONGAN

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
DU MU

Occupiers of 'bad' buildings are exposed to far worse dangers on the streets than in the buildings, ...
DU PLESSIS

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam...
DU FU

We also investigated the ice-mining location (for the festival) and found that there were no polluta...
DU YUXIN

Water quality has improved dramatically. Drinking water is very secure and even better than before.
DU YUXIN

I can guarantee that the ice and snow we have used for the festival is safe and clean.
DU YUXIN

The requisition of farmland at low prices is hurting farmers' interests, and the existence of this p...
DU YING

We have to recognize that there is a problem of taking farmers' land at a very low price.
DU YING

I am getting used to it day by day, but the football here is very physical. I need more time and I a...
DU WEI

The fundamentals are okay, but the market is not as resilient as before and sentiment could quickly ...
DU PLESSIS

Under current circumstances, it will be very easy for retailers to widen their margins, and many of ...
DU PLESSIS

We want to make a special gesture towards those subscribers and advertisers who joined us in this ex...
DU PLESSIS

That's why, from time to time, there are people acting.
DU PLESSIS

It's a good thing to rotate the directors.
DU PLESSIS

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.
DU FU

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
DU FU

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
DU FU

We spend only 30,000 yuan to build our houses, but their homes cost 300,000 yuan.
DU CHONGAN

My dad couldn't even afford a bicycle, now I have a motorcycle. When my son gets to be my age, he'll...
DU CHONGAN

My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others.
My thatch gate has been closed–but...
DU FU

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
DU FU

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAEL

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAEL

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it...
MADAME DE STAEL

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the check...
MADAME DE STAEL

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAEL

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAEL

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAEL

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAEL

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of...
MADAME DE STAEL

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAEL

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAEL

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAEL

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the ...
MADAME DE RIEUX

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes ...
MADAME DE MAINTENON

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
MADAME DE RIEUX

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeki...
MADAME DE LAMBERT

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY

One crime is everything, two is nothing.
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
MADAME DE MAINTENON

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY

Instinct is the nose of the mind.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN

Perseverance and audacity generally win!
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
MADAME DE STAEL

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
MADAME DOROTHéE DELUZY

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAEL

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STA

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
MADAME DE STAEL

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts
MADAME DE STAEL

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repa...
MADAME DE TENCIN

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between thing...
MADAME DE STAEL

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes
MADAME DE STAEL

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks th...
MADAME DE STAEL

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering
MADAME DE STAEL

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays,...
MADAME DE STAEL

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn
MADAME DE STAEL

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering
MADAME DE STAEL

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable
MADAME DE STAEL

To understand everything makes one very indulgent
MADAME DE STAEL

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
MADAME DOROTHéE DELUZY

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.
MADAME DOROTHé DELUZY

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STA‘L

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seek...
MADAME DE LAMBERT

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
MADAME DE STAEL

Nothing is more adroit than irreproachable conduct
MADAME DE MAINTENON

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action
MADAME DE STAEL

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies G...
MADAME DE STAEL

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.
MADAME DE SABLé

Do you belong to anyone?" he asked.
"No," she whispered.
"Good, because tonight, you belon...
MADAME DE BOUDOIR

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY

There is one antidote only for coquetry, and that is true love
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY

A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that hasn't got any head
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.
NATALIE DU TOIT

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on wi...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I'm probably the most negative person around.
NATALIE DU TOIT

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in ...
NATALIE DU TOIT

By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
NATALIE DU TOIT

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
NATALIE DU TOIT

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
NATALIE DU TOIT

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally hav...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
NATALIE DU TOIT

I hate seaweed.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I never thought of being disadvantaged.
NATALIE DU TOIT

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
NATALIE DU TOIT

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try...
NATALIE DU TOIT

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
NATALIE DU TOIT

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]

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Madame Marie Anne du Deffand

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]

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