Honore de Balzac Quotes

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Honore de Balzac

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• Actors make less than you think.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Less

• My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Artist

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Underdog

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

  

  K. Flay
  • You
  • Dark
  • Places

• Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Faith
  • Joy

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Guy
  • Fear
  • Color

• The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.

  

  David F. Houston
  • May
  • War
  • Food

• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Army

• I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Believe
  • School
  • Poverty

• Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Up

• It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

  

  James Lipton
  • Up

• Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stress

• If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • May

• When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • World
  • God
  • Purpose

• Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Friendships
  • Thinks
  • Superiority