Honore de Balzac Quotes

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Honore de Balzac

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• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Go West, young man.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Man
  • Young
  • Young Man

• I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Three
  • Hole
  • Contest

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • World
  • God
  • Poetry

• A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

  

  Louise Penny
  • Book
  • Discipline
  • Lazy

• I struggled for so long to try to create a career.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Long
  • Career

• Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • House
  • Promise

• I have been a producer and director for many years, and I can say it's really difficult for women, although the women in Mexico suffer as much as other women in the world. The first thing is to get respect for the work you do. Then it is about getting the money. And this respect comes little by little over the years.

  

  Adriana Barraza
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • Good
  • Today
  • English

• I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Effort

• If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Trying
  • Military

• I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Time
  • Death
  • Relationship

• The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present. (p. 193)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Heart
  • Present

• I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

  

  Jon Watts
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Friends

• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Black
  • Earth
  • Space

• The offensive line was getting a real good push, ... I feel if I can see a little hole, I can get to it, and that was happening today.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Good
  • Real
  • Today

• Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Liberty
  • Constitution
  • Union

• I think that's a fair assessment. When you're on a winning streak, it seems you can't do anything wrong, and even when you do something wrong, it seems that it's overshadowed by something bigger or better. When you're riding a losing streak, it seems you're always just one mistake from putting yourself back in that big hole.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Winning
  • Mistake
  • Hole

• Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Speak
  • Face

• We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

  

  Andrew Levitas
  • Die
  • Winner
  • Guide

• The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Knowing
  • Treasure

• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Human Heart
  • Hole
  • Lurks