Marcel Proust Quotes

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Marcel Proust

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• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Mother
  • Say
  • Angels

• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Day

• There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Thoughtful
  • Turn
  • Debate

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Trust

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Security
  • Transportation

• When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Little
  • Come
  • Enlightenment

• When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Government
  • Serving

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Spiritual
  • Brothers

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Play

• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Wife

• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  

  May Sarton
  • Hero

• Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • World
  • Why
  • Attention

• God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Afraid