Honore de Balzac Quotes

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Honore de Balzac

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• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

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

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Always
  • Gold

• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Children
  • Thrive

• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Existence
  • Exist
  • Agreement

• You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

  

  Joe Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Respect

• When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Done
  • Career
  • Fighting

• I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Rejection

• I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People
  • Sorry

• There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • World

• I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

  

  Dean Geyer
  • Time

• There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • American
  • Age
  • Society

• As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Weird

• Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

  

  Jose Padilha

• To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Head
  • Creatures
  • Queen

• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Choices
  • Raised

• When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Independent
  • Winter
  • Journal

• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Duty
  • Theater
  • Loyalty

• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Independent
  • Problems
  • Adventure

• Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Raised
  • Estimation
  • Examined