Marcel Proust Quotes

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

Marcel Proust

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Politics
  • Shy
  • Reserved

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Think
  • You
  • Pain

• We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Constitution
  • Refuse
  • Strife

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Up
  • World
  • Free

• I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses.

  

  Jeff Jordan

• I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor on 'ER' to doing '8 Mile,' where I'm in charge of the hip-hop battles, I think it affects all kinds of different audiences. And I just try to keep that in mind, to keep people entertained.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Mind
  • See
  • Flowing