Honore de Balzac Quotes

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Honore de Balzac

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• Nobody wants to give up good players.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Give

• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• A lot of people don't get second chances.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Chances
  • Second

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom – however your folks got here – it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'

  

  Kenny Leon
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • People
  • Children
  • Hope

• I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of mankind - the landscape of the human soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human being can be.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Dance

• I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • People
  • Bad
  • Fake

• Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Desires