Honore de Balzac Quotes

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Honore de Balzac

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• What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

  

  Imran Khan
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• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
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• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
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• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
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  • Book

• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
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• I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
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• Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • College

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
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  • Question

• The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Question
  • Attitude

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Lost
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins

• It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Good
  • You
  • Question

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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  • Facts

• I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

  

  Ellen Datlow
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• State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the lifecycle of a high tech startup, but angel capital is crucial for first-time entrepreneurs. Angel investors provide more than just cash; they bring years of expertise as both founders of businesses and as seasoned investors.

  

  Jay Samit
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• You are to bring my message to those ensnared in the drug-net of illusion that they should abstain, that the drugs will bring more harm than good. I send my love to them.

  

  Meher Baba
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• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Sins
  • Welfare