Marcel Proust Quotes

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Speak
  • Celebrity
  • Media

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Waiting
  • Writer
  • Newcomers

• I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Now
  • Ways
  • Lighter

• When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Fun

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Act

• One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Old
  • Listen
  • Often

• Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Done
  • Past
  • Wish

• You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • World
  • Kind

• Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Home
  • Welcome
  • Page

• I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Small

• Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Great
  • Why
  • May

• We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.

  

  Elizabeth Dole
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mind

• It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

  

  Marcel Proust
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