Honore de Balzac Quotes
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.Honore de Balzac
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To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. Forbes -
I don't write about my life in my column.
Dan Savage -
I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
Damian Lewis -
Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
Edgar Wright -
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
Warren Beatty -
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
Irvine Welsh
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
Patrick Roy -
One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
Ralph Hall -
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
Paloma Faith
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson -
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Aaron Sorkin -
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
Saina Nehwal -
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
Naveen Jain -
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
E. W. Howe
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
Michael Faraday -
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.
Paul Davies -
I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.
Charlemagne Palestine -
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
Honore de Balzac