Marcel Proust Quotes

Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude le remplit.

Marcel Proust

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Blind

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Family
  • Depression
  • Adolescence

• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Goals
  • Just

• There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • High
  • Head
  • Count

• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Blood
  • Taste
  • Fighter

• In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • You
  • Know
  • Born

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Music
  • They Say

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do... I just love the way it makes the house smell!

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Open
  • Smell
  • Likes

• Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Know
  • Support
  • Sister

• In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • People
  • Change
  • Confidence

• My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Conversation
  • Germ
  • Bacteriologist

• In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Black
  • Teen
  • Pregnancy

• The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Death
  • Faith

• Slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Overweight
  • Groupie

• Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude le remplit.

  

  Marcel Proust