Honore de Balzac Quotes

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• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Meeting
  • Soldiers

• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Today
  • Golf

• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Sin

• Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Way
  • Doing
  • Everyone

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • America
  • Amazing
  • New York

• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Business
  • Wish

• I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Got
  • Nephews
  • Nieces

• We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Exercise

• You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • You
  • Find

• I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Day
  • Same
  • Nobody

• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Experience
  • Color

• One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Success
  • Quality

• We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Children
  • Body

• Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Spirit
  • Sea
  • Human Soul

• If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Endgame
  • Quicksand

• Behind every fortune there is a crime.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Crime
  • Fortune