Honore de Balzac Quotes
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.
B. R. Hayden
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan Paton
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium
You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
Nalini Singh
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Oscar Wilde
Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
Marge Piercy
I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.
Marianne Williamson
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
Yasmin Mogahed
Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.
Pete Wilson
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Nouriel Roubini
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.
William Davenant
We both played last night and I think both teams were a little worn down. In those situations, talent can get you through a game and Slovakia has a lot of skill.
Arturs Irbe
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.
Anna Paskevska
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac