Marcel Proust Quotes

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

Marcel Proust

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Money
  • Impossible

• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Inspiration

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• One moment cannot be the most important.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Important
  • Moment
  • Most

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kids
  • See
  • Said

• It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

  

  Lorde
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Lyric

• If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Industrial revolution

• Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Growing
  • Grandfather
  • Retail

• The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Actions