Honore de Balzac Quotes
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
Quotes to Explore
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
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I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.
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I like Ben Carson.
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The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
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To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
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Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.
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We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.
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You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.
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We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.
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What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.
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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
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When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
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On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
