Marcel Proust Quotes
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
Zoe Kravitz
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
George Bernard Shaw
If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
Stephen Graham Jones
The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.
Benedict Groeschel
The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
Akiane Kramarik
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.
Marcel Proust