Honore de Balzac Quotes
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
Honore de Balzac
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Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'
Dan Jenkins
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
P. J. O'Rourke
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
Natalie Portman
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
Barry White
It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
Rafe Spall
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
Xavier Niel
I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
Nadia Comaneci
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
Oswald Chambers
What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.
Eliot Spitzer
If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.
John Henry Patterson
Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
Vita Sackville-West
My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.
Natalia Ginzburg
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.
Richard Simmons
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Joyce Brothers
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
Plato
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
Honore de Balzac
