Country Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

— Pablo Neruda

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

— Sarah Beeny

But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the…

— Edward Gibbon

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the…

— John Keegan

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The holiest of Christians, and those who understand best the gospel of Christ, find in themselves a constant inclination to look to the power…

— Charles Spurgeon

It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much…

— Joe Swanberg

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to…

— Baron d'Holbach

Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

— Robert Genn

Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing…

— Steve Martin