Honore de Balzac Quotes
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
Honore de Balzac
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Valerie Jarrett
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig
I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
Rachel True
The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
Dan Wheldon
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
Raha Moharrak
I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams
For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
Samantha Morton
Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
Randy Pausch
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
Camille Paglia
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Randall Jarrell
How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart
Ben Gibbard
Death Cab for Cutie
'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
Taylor Swift
Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
C. Wright Mills
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
Flannery O'Connor
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
C. S. Lewis
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
Honore de Balzac
