Honore de Balzac Quotes

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • May
  • Freedom

• To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Money
  • May
  • Democracy

• It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Belief
  • Will
  • Taste

• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Laughed

• I love myself and I am a good person.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Person

• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Life
  • Tennis

• So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

  

  Luc Ferrari
  • Life
  • Spring

• Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep, so may I be even more out of my reckoning in the case of these very little animalcules.

  

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • May
  • True

• I shall admit frankly that, among the academic diversions available today, I consider sociology as a sort of 'royal game'.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Today
  • Game

• By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• It's easy to be an educated fool.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Fool
  • Easy
  • Educated

• Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Different
  • Power
  • Giving

• If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Friend
  • Decision
  • Should

• Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

  

  Homer
  • Studied
  • Companionship
  • Nutrients

• Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Convinced
  • Marry

• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  

  Dava Sobel
  • Distance
  • Individual
  • Authority

• The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Repression

• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Marry
  • Studied
  • Anatomy