Georges Duhamel Quotes

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Duhamel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 30, 1884 - April 13, 1966

Topics

StrengthHorizonBeyondLandOpen

History is only written from what remains.

Jill Lepore

HistoryOnlyRemainsWritten

You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

Jeremy Irons

FamilyLoveStrengthMarriageFight

I don't think estates are grim places.

Andrea Arnold

ThinkPlacesGrimEstates

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

Matt Damon

PoliticsPeopleMeValuesElection

Nothing more threatens Vladimir Putin than not being able to track his own citizens.

Michael Hayden

NothingMoreOwnTrackBeingAble

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

Amanda Seyfried

TimeShoppingFreeEndGymPhone

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

Ronnie Spector

PeopleDoingHandsAirConcertOwn

I have lost every respect for U.S. justice. The judgment by the Supreme Court and the other, even more absurd judgment by a New York circuit court deciding that Iran should pay damages for 9/11 are the height of absurdity.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

RespectJusticeNew YorkLostNew

If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.

Julia Hartz

YouTwoPointGetBenefitsFaster

All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.

Jason Winston George

HumorIntelligenceConnectionHuman

Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each shoe and bag, which in itself may be attractive and useful and comfortable to carry and wear, there is this Italian spirit, this Italian dream.

Diego Della Valle

ShoesMeBagDreamLivingShoe

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

Chris Van Hollen

EnergyNationThroughWasteAwful

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