Marcel Proust Quotes

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Marcel Proust

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• I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Price
  • Treasure

• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Found
  • Go
  • Coworkers

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Grow

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Intelligent
  • Facts
  • Debate

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Path
  • Talent
  • Open

• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Bond

• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Story
  • Say
  • Legendary

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Believe
  • Desire

• Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

  

  Bob Shacochis
  • Trying
  • Job

• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Step

• If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• There are a lot of very simple recipes in the book, and there's a huge amount of material to help people understand how things work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • People
  • Love Is
  • Vain