Honore de Balzac Quotes

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker.

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mum

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Purpose

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Prison

• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Lost
  • Better
  • Romantic

• The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Real
  • Mother

• Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Lost
  • Vision

• I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • God

• I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Church
  • Vision

• God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • God
  • Solitary
  • Seeker