Honore de Balzac Quotes

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Women
  • Family
  • Nice

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Small
  • Action

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Own

• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Voice
  • Organization
  • Research

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Love

• I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Control
  • Person

• We grow small trying to be great.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Small

• I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Me
  • Finding

• The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Green

• The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Intelligent
  • Fields
  • Experts

• For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

  

  David Rittenhouse
  • May
  • Taken

• Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Mother
  • Boy

• My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.

  

  Deniece Williams
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Church

• Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Mother
  • Enemies
  • Kings