Marcel Proust Quotes
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
Park Shin-hye -
Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
Tahj Mowry -
I do a lot of ceramics.
Jeff Bridges -
I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
John Travolta -
I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.
Jeff Goldblum -
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
Abraham Lincoln
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The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall.
Sara Coleridge -
The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.
Vladimir Putin -
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
William Hazlitt -
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
William Hazlitt -
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
William Hazlitt -
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
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Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Plutarch -
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus -
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
Honore de Balzac -
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
Marcel Proust