Honore de Balzac Quotes
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.Honore de Balzac
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
Nathan Fillion -
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz -
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou -
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
Patricia Highsmith -
The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
Edgar Ramirez
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest -
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone -
Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
Nate Holland -
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston -
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
Olga Korbut -
Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
Carlos Beruff -
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
Bryan Adams -
I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
Christina Aguilera -
We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again.
Jack Roy -
I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.
Andrew Peterson
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
Klemens von Metternich -
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
Honore de Balzac