Honore de Balzac Quotes

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Honore de Balzac

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• My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

  

  Dane Cook
  • True
  • Professional
  • Dreams

• Metaphysics is a science.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Metaphysics

• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Painting

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • May
  • Write
  • Decide

• I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Like
  • Say

• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Theater
  • Profession
  • Esteem

• Democracy without morality is impossible.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Democracy
  • Morality
  • Without

• The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Work
  • New

• The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Failure
  • Service

• Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again . . . .

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Taken

• Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Unity
  • Rejection

• Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Poverty

• Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Sex
  • Boyfriend

• I want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose 'Audit the Fed.'

  

  Janet Yellen

• I don't think you cross the line - I think you move the line.

  

  Jeff Ross

• A little shock value goes a long way in letting people know where you stand and that you care, and if you do it with a good heart it builds respect around you. You’re the guy who says stuff other people won’t. It can even make you lovable. Comedians have known that forever. The cheat becomes even more effective when you add a spoiler. By that I mean you sort of announce that you’re going to piss somebody off by saying something like, “No offense, but…” or “You may not want to hear this, but…,” then come out with the zinger. What can they do? If they get pissed, then they’re the asshole, because hey, you warned them. And if they’re an asshole, you probably don’t want to do business with them anyway, so you might as well say what’s on your mind.

  

  Brian Wong
  • People
  • Heart
  • Way

• The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.

  

  Andrew S. Draper
  • Opportunity
  • Developing
  • Power Of God

• You may hold my tears and live as you did before, trusting your soul to no one. Or you may release my tears and accept what comes.

  

  Elizabeth Lowell
  • Tears
  • Accept
  • Trusting

• It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Kindness
  • Characteristic

• A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Favor
  • Bankruptcy
  • Great Love