Marcel Proust Quotes

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Marcel Proust

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• Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Better
  • Price
  • Jeans

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • Search
  • Stock

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Price

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nature
  • Price
  • Cheated

• We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Work
  • Price
  • Oil

• The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Death
  • Single
  • Human

• You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down.” I sighed. “You’re kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed.” “NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket.” “Chicken.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Heart
  • Ticket
  • NASCAR

• Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Reason
  • Interest

• A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • System
  • Price
  • U.S.

• It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Success
  • Price

• House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • House
  • Past
  • Strong

• Some people always know the price, but not the value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Value

• I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

  

  Billy Joel
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Value

• They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Done
  • Price
  • Pray

• We bought a ticket and got up in the stands. We got there fairly early and were sitting for what seemed like a half hour, 45 minutes, when all of sudden, here comes my truck and my car across the track. I told Darlene, 'I can't believe Big John (Boettcher) brought my car up here.' So I raced. That was my honeymoon.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Car

• We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Peace
  • Abhor
  • Pusillanimity

• Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Music
  • True Love
  • Imagines

• Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Focus
  • Effect
  • E-mail

• Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Like

• A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Price
  • Theories
  • Ticket