Honore de Balzac Quotes

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PowerTrueHardStrikingOften

Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.

Joan Larsen

VoicePresidentRealSystemThreat

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

Jerry Bruckheimer

YouKnowLineWhereDrawFilmmakers

I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

Andy Dick

LaughterPeopleMeGiftLaughKnow

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Max Lerner

HopePoliticsSurpriseKingdomGates

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

John Henrik Clarke

CommunityHistoryAcceptancePeople

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

Steve Carell

PeopleSexYoungThanYounger

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

Stephen Mangan

MyselfMindMeTouchMoreSee

I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.

Travis Scott

MusicDiversityWantBigVeryEver

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Ron Livingston

WorkMoneyWorldEndBetterYou

As a matter of a fact, though, I've never actually played a video game where I've played as myself.

Ronnie Lott

MyselfGameMatterNeverWhereFact

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

Monica Vitti

LiveGirlWishActorBecomeLittle

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

Christopher Buckley

LiveSadI AmTrainAdmitKnow

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