Honore de Balzac Quotes

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Lot

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
  • Notice

• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.

  

  Malese Jow
  • Think
  • Games
  • Hunger

• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Effort

• Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Long
  • Opinion
  • Unique

• What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Future
  • Find
  • Video

• Man is a tool-making animal.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Animal

• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Effort

• If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

  

  Angie Harmon

• The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

  

  Christina Romer
  • People
  • Future
  • Stop

• A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Light
  • Woman
  • Red

• Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Impact

• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Student
  • Working Hard

• It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People
  • Strong
  • Amazing

• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Legacy
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  • Human Genius