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

• 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

• When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Value

• The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Party
  • Parties

• A RIPE EXPERIENCE OF GERMAN pillows in country places leads me to urge the intending traveller to be sure to take his own. The native pillows are mere bags, in which feathers may have been once. There is no substance in them at all. They are of a horrid flabbiness. And they have, of course, the common drawback of all public pillows, they are haunted by the nightmares of other people. A pillow, it is true, takes up a great deal of room in one’s luggage.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Leads
  • Nightmares

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• People who know my track record know when I've got a vision in mind, I'll see it through. But sometimes it's hard to convey what you're trying to achieve.

  

  Julia Davis
  • Trying
  • Vision
  • Achieve

• 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