Honore de Balzac Quotes
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.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 -
I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
Kate Thompson -
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 -
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker -
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
Karl Radek -
You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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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 -
The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
Kate Williams -
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Samuel Goldwyn -
There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
Ted Cruz -
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 -
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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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Victor Davis Hanson -
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
Paolo Bacigalupi -
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
Harri Holkeri -
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards Deming -
Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
Raini Rodriguez -
I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.
E. L. Konigsburg
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I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
Marjane Satrapi -
I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy -
I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
Patrick Henry -
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
Nancy Gibbs -
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
Honore de Balzac