Honore de Balzac Quotes

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Honore de Balzac

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• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Home
  • Japanese

• Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Actions
  • Become
  • Promises

• Fashion is a completely international business.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Fashion

• When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Economy

• When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

  

  Anne-Marie

• I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.

  

  Dreama Walker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

  

  Lisa McMann
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Morning

• All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Emotion
  • Genuine
  • Involuntary

• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • People
  • Small
  • Spring

• 'Skinned' tells the story of Lia, a young girl who has it all - until she nearly dies and has her consciousness transferred into a robot body.

  

  John Joseph Adams
  • She
  • Girl

• Don't worry too much on pathways programs: good players find a way to get through to play for their country.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • Good
  • Country
  • Worry

• As the late Howard Zinn once said, 'There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.'

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • People
  • Innocent

• As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Music
  • Said

• Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ass rock !!!

  

  Carmine Appice Cactus
  • Unique
  • Records
  • Excited

• There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Punishment
  • Sins

• I have been sexist before. I have called girls names. I have gone with the misogynist flow.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Names
  • Been
  • Gone

• Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Fear

• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sins
  • Remorse
  • Importence