Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Harold Pinter -
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker -
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White The White Stripes -
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
Alan Cumming -
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
Irwin Edman -
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
Ma Jaya -
Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
Joanne Rowling -
The only sin is stupidity.
Oscar Wilde -
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
Astrid Lindgren -
Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.
Carol Leifer
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
Corrie Ten Boom -
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
O. S. Hawkins -
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
Nadine Gordimer -
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
C. S. Lewis -
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader -
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
D. H. Lawrence
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
Honore de Balzac -
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Abraham Lincoln -
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
Honore de Balzac