Marcel Proust Quotes

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Marcel Proust

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• I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Group
  • Kardashians

• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Small
  • Small Things

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Having Fun

• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Easier

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Business
  • Calm
  • Too Late

• Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Love
  • Jesus

• I'm very lucky.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Guitarist
  • Amateur

• Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Up
  • Want
  • Powerful

• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Change

• Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • See
  • Perception
  • Computers

• I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Will
  • Saying
  • Release

• The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Soul

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Feet
  • Shadows
  • Joined