Quotes of: Proust Keyword

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Sarah Fielding

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Plutarch

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Helen Rowland

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

Francoise Sagan

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Robert Darnton

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Elie Wiesel

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

Greg Iles

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Khalil Gibran

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Marvin Minsky

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Maxwell Maltz

I can't go on, I'll go on.

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Melvil Dewey

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

Sylvia Browne

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Maria Mitchell

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

Richard Dawkins

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Marianne Williamson

To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Laurent Brancowitz