Honore de Balzac Quotes
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Honore de Balzac
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson
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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
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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
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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
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller
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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
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
P. J. O'Rourke
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God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
Avicenna
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Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.
Pete Hoekstra
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
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In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Honore de Balzac
