Marcel Proust Quotes

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

Marcel Proust

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• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• We were all Romans once, I guess.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Guess
  • Once
  • Romans

• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Artist

• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Voting

• I'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Events
  • Meeting

• My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Ridiculous
  • Stolen

• I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • People
  • Attention
  • Unknown

• My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Expectations

• Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Work
  • Learning

• I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Poetry

• You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • People
  • Country
  • Evil

• The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Man
  • Difference
  • Valet

• Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Educate

• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Strong
  • Destiny
  • Virtuous

• We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Evolving our consciousness is not something we do only for ourselves — it is something we do also for others... for all others, and for the Earth. Because when we open up and let our body and mind feel our ties with others and with nature, we change ourselves, and change others around us. When a sufficient number of people pray or meditate together, or find another path to evolve their consciousness, other people are affected as well. More sick people heal, divorce and suicide rates drop, crime and violence diminish. When many people open up, a powerful force develops — a leap of consciousness takes place. All the great prophets and sages of history knew this, Jesus as well as the Buddha, Mohammed as well as Zoroaster — and more recently Bahá'u'lláh the same as Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard de Chardin and the Dalai Lama.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Collection
  • Warning
  • Stamps