Honore de Balzac Quotes

When women love, they forgive everything...

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Talent

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Different
  • Own
  • Personal

• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Know
  • Succeed

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Important
  • History
  • Tool

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Home
  • Think
  • Democracy

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Talking

• I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Soccer

• I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Want
  • Everyday
  • Own

• Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Pleasure

• I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Kids

• His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Support

• When women love, they forgive everything...

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Women
  • Love
  • Forgive