Honore de Balzac Quotes
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.Honore de Balzac
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul -
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty -
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
Aaron Swartz -
Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr -
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry -
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
Lara Logan -
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart -
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf -
My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
Zach Galifianakis
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
Tammy Bruce -
When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
Ian Mckellen -
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell -
'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
Frances Conroy -
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
L'Wren Scott -
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
Manuel Puig
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett -
My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
Walter Scott -
I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.
Danny Dyer -
I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'
John Madden -
The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.
George A. Romero -
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
Honore de Balzac