Honore de Balzac Quotes
What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
Honore de Balzac
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
Taylor Momsen
I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
Laila Ali
You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
Karl Rove
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
C. K. Williams
What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.
Matthew Walker
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.
Marie Avgeropoulos
Representative Baker is an embarrassment. He is wrong on the issue of enforceability, ... His response to our settlement is explained by his failure to grasp the issues at hand and his failure to do anything to protect small investors.
Eliot Spitzer
Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
Robert Frost
I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a different, very trippy kind of time, I find, because you're together in imaginary time where you're out of time. You're called upon to be present and honor what can happen in the moment. And the whole day can go like that. The whole day can be a kind of meditation.
Jeff Goldblum
The west with second pomp is bright though in the east the dusk is thickening, twilight's first star breaks forth in white, into night's gold each moment quickening.
Alfred Billings Street
My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Oprah Winfrey
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
Arthur Helps
