Honore de Balzac Quotes

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

Honore de Balzac

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• Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Live
  • Government
  • Find

• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude

• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gift
  • Greatest
  • Thyself

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Celebration

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Important
  • Me
  • Support

• I was always the weirdo at school.

  

  Karen Elson
  • School
  • Always
  • Weirdo

• South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • History
  • Friend
  • Speak

• The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

  

  Kate Klise
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

  

  William Baldwin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Truth
  • Word
  • Souls

• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Men
  • Done
  • Helping

• The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.

  

  George Steele
  • Respect
  • Trained
  • Surviving

• Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Feelings
  • Minds
  • Satisfaction