Honore de Balzac Quotes

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Topics

LifeBusinessManFriendsFortune

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.

Jill Abramson

HistoryMoreNeverTwiceLeakSeen

I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

Jennifer Hyman

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Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Steven Chu

RememberGeometryFirstExciting

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Steven Rattner

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It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

Shuji Nakamura

GoodCompetitionResearchDrivePace

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

Mary Lambert

HumanityLovingMoreOpenBeing

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

Josh Turner

YouKnowSaidDoneLandNever

When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.

Jason Blum

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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

AttentionHumanAwarenessUniversal

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

Chris Hughes

ReadingNewNowYearsRepublicFive

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

Boris Yeltsin

PotentialAttentionInformationNeed

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Seth Shostak

SpaceFeetThinkEndLongEarth

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