Honore de Balzac Quotes

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.

Michael Dell

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We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

DemocracyNeverTakeDevelopShould

We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it.

Robin Sloan

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'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Michael Patrick King

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If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

Diane Cilento

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I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

Doug Stanton

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Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Chris Klein

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I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them.

David Walton

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I'm definitely playing the best football of my time at Chelsea.

Ashley Cole

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I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.

Sebastian Vettel

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