Honore de Balzac Quotes

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomanDestinyNeverBendEverything

We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

Jerry West

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Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

Michael Greger

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I don't want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox.

Sofia Vergara

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You take the risk of being rejected.

Roger Waters

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Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.

Ron DeSantis

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I love acting. It's way different from singing, but I like really put my ten thousand hours in to be really good. I want to be a premier actor. I want Oscars, I want recognition, and I want to move people just as much as I move people with my music, the same with my acting.

Luke James

LoveGoodMusicPeopleSingingWant

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

Jasmine Guinness

WorkChildrenPeopleMeWaitCare

Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

Cheryl Tiegs

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In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

Cory Booker

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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

Brantley Gilbert

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Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Polly Berrien Berends

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Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

Penn Jillette

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