Marcel Proust Quotes
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
Federica Mogherini -
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
Isaac Hayes -
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
Hamza Yusuf -
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
Zhang Ziyi -
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones -
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
Gary Hamel
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
F. Sionil Jose -
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
Edmund Morgan -
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
Samora Machel -
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
J. D. Pardo -
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck -
The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
Yitzhak Shamir
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington -
Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
Dana Brunetti -
The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.
Joe Lieberman -
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
Oscar Wilde -
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.
Muhammad Ali
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I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
Mireille Guiliano -
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
W. H. Auden -
I just like having fun with my style and keeping it new.
Cam Newton -
Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
E. Lockhart -
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
Marcel Proust