Marcel Proust Quotes

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

Marcel Proust

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Government
  • Wood
  • Sheep

• Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Important
  • Me
  • Trust

• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Religion

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Smart

• I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Years
  • Model
  • Invest

• The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Help
  • Career
  • Expect

• I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • School
  • Loved

• My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • True
  • Question

• The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

  

  Gary Gygax

• If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Question

• Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.

  

  Taliesin
  • King
  • Hero

• Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.

  

  Quintilian

• I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I ain't as good as I once wasI got a few years on me now.But there was a time back in my primeWhen I could really lay it down.And if you need some love tonight,Then I might have just enough.I ain't as good as I once was,But I'm as good once as I ever was.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Time
  • Good

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Night
  • Trolls

• We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Death
  • Diversity
  • Newspapers