Marcel Proust Quotes

For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

Marcel Proust

• Passion
• Impression
• Loves
• Illusions

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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Time
  • Car
  • Calendar

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Friends
  • College
  • Wish

• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• For the rain it raineth every day.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• Would you look at me I'm crazy But I get the job done Yeah, I'm crazy but I get the job done.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Done
  • Job
  • Crazy

• The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

  

  Lew Wallace
  • History
  • Death

• I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Bad

• From what I've read, CM Punk is like a sponge when it comes to training.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Training

• I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.

  

  Martin Bouygues
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.

  

  Madame de La Fayette
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mother

• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Real
  • Today
  • Action

• Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Song
  • Desire
  • Bird

• For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Passion
  • Impression
  • Loves