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

• Energy prices are soaring all around us, ... If this situation continues, every American family across the country is going to feel the impact this winter and next summer. No one is going to be immune.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Country
  • Family
  • American

• 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

• People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • Economy
  • Price

• 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

• If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Why
  • May
  • Player

• 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 will be a good long time before there's upward pressure on prices or wages.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• 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

• Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • May
  • Price
  • Producers

• To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Duty
  • Minds
  • Satisfaction

• If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • Want

• Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.

  

  Carter Jenkins
  • Different
  • Film
  • Enjoy

• 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