Marcel Proust Quotes

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Marcel Proust

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Two
  • Constitution
  • Taxes

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

  

  Jack Hannah
  • Want
  • Alone
  • Best

• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fate
  • Decisions
  • Survive

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Home
  • Street

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • War
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Money
  • Sympathy

• I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Women
  • Trust

• As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

  

  Diplo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

  

  Bob Barr
  • World
  • Intelligent

• For me, my mother is everything.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Mother

• The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Fall

• I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Air

• A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Simple

• Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• I guess somewhere along the way He must have let us all out to play Turned his back, and all God's children Crept out the back door

  

  George Michael
  • God
  • Children
  • Door

• I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Time
  • Habit
  • Passions