Honore de Balzac Quotes

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Cool
  • Mountain

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Healthy
  • Week
  • Jeans

• Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Him

• Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Different
  • Film
  • Doing

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Environment
  • Yourself

• Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Truth
  • Death

• Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory-of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've always been a fan of the VMAs, and I've always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

  

  DJ Khaled

• While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Freedom

• Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Men
  • Mistake

• It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Wise
  • Philosophers
  • Catastrophies