Honore de Balzac Quotes

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Honore de Balzac

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• I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Should

• In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Woman
  • Emotional

• I'm a strong woman.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Style
  • Best
  • Woman

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Compassion
  • Genuine

• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Work
  • Men
  • Woman

• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Up
  • Women
  • High

• A woman can never have enough shoes.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Shoes

• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Women
  • Woman

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Man

• As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • You
  • Woman

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Wealth
  • Lose
  • Ill

• A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

  

  Ahmad Shamloo
  • Eyes
  • Laughing
  • Crying

• I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want to smash his face in and strangle him and kick him down the stairs and I'll be pouting about that one guy all night.

  

  Wayne White
  • People
  • Love
  • Sense

• Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Woman
  • Compassion
  • Angels