Honore de Balzac Quotes

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Honore de Balzac

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• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hearts

• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Gold
  • Devil
  • Mud

• People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Vote
  • Hearts

• Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hearts
  • Millions

• When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Giving
  • Driving

• I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• The resilience of the economy ... is helping it to absorb the shocks to energy and transportation from the hurricanes.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Resilience

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Habit
  • Differences
  • Hearts

• Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Men
  • Science
  • Hate

• Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Lies
  • Blood
  • Break

• Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • Fears

• When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Hearts

• For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Work
  • Love
  • Hearts

• As useful as it may be, in the end, I don't think technology can ever fully express what people are feeling in their hearts.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Hearts

• Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Love
  • Memories

• The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • House
  • Land
  • Sailing

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Back
  • Hearts
  • Empty

• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Why
  • Truth

• Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • True

• There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Men
  • Snow
  • Frozen

• Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Water

• No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • People
  • Art
  • Authority

• Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hearts
  • Mud
  • Hurricanes