Honore de Balzac Quotes

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

Honore de Balzac

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

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• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
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• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
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• 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.
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• I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.

  

  Jack Lemmon
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• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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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.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
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• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

  

  Idries Shah
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• No suspicion of foul play at this time.

  

  Wendell Johnson
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• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.

  

  Naoko Takeuchi
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• What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.

  

  Tertullian
  • God
  • Christian
  • Gods

• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Dream
  • Learn
  • Leader

• I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.

  

  Alex Caceres
  • Enjoy
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  • Actions

• We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Gods
  • Actions
  • Human Nature