Honore de Balzac Quotes

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Honore de Balzac

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• If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Know
  • Cells
  • Genes

• I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Always
  • Gold

• We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • For Her
  • For Him
  • Hearts

• I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• I like to keep Valentine's dinner light so you don't crash after and can keep the fun going through the night!

  

  Camila Alves
  • Fun
  • Night
  • Light

• TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Theater

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Collect
  • Stamps
  • Doubles

• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Stronger

• The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Mood
  • Necessary

• Cliare: "You know what? I need you right now." Shane:"Now?" Claire: "Right now." Shane: "Oh, that's so exactly what I was going to say." *dropping C. to the bed.* Claire: "Jinxies

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Conversation

• I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Character

• There's a lot of people that are in need. We're going little by little... I'm only one person, but we are contributing.

  

  Ozuna
  • People
  • Need
  • Contributing

• Because life’s too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in.

  

  Alice Fulton
  • Life
  • Blood
  • Blush

• Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • God
  • Grace
  • Lives

• I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Sleep
  • Pajamas
  • Nightgowns

• Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Lives
  • Forgetting
  • Great Secret