Marcel Proust Quotes

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

Marcel Proust

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• By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
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  • Woman

• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• I love the hip-hop nation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
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• One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Hand
  • Dreams
  • Bed

• About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • People
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• Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Different
  • Tiger

• What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Gift
  • Thank You

• Every fight is a different experience.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Fight

• The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Baby
  • Become
  • Patient

• Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Emotional
  • Better

• The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Laughing

• The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Together

• I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Head

• I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Player

• Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

  

  Rick Astley
  • May
  • Remember
  • Help

• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

  

  Charles E. Stanton
  • Heart
  • War
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• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Language
  • Studying
  • Hungarian

• And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

  

  Rose Tremain
  • Think
  • Want
  • Unique

• We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Advertising
  • Spend
  • Dollar

• And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Measure
  • Studying
  • Painters