Marie Henri Beyle Quotes

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public. ~ Stendhal

I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies ... ~ Ernest Rutherford

Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge." ~ Marie Curie

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. ~ Henri Marie Ducrotay De Blainville

The best way to learn to swim is to dive. ~ Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu

You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me? ~ Karen Marie Moning

Whatever he had lost, be it his money, his friends, his reputation, his self-respect, his inner joy and peace - one or all - he still remained his father's child. And so he says to himself: "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men." With these words in his heart, he was able to turn, to leave the foreign country, and go home. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Men do not sufficiently realize
that their future is in their own hands.
Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not.
Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live,
or intend to make just the extra effort required
for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet,
the essential function of the universe,
which is a machine for the making of gods. ~ Henri Bergson

To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you. ~ Marie Brenner

Once we love, we cannot revoke it,' she said. 'We can only glory in what it brings
pain as well as joy, grief as well as hope. ~ Marie Brennan

Love knows no right or wrong.
Love is. Only is. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Teaching ... can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply. ~ Marie Clay

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence. ~ Henri Matisse

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. ~ Teena Marie

Be an angel, practice randam acts of kindness! ~ Marie Fostino

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place. ~ Anne-Marie Duff

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills. ~ Karen Marie Moning

The scar on her forearm meant she could never be loyal to her family. Her name meant she could never be loyal to the Corbeaus. The only one left to be loyal to was him. ~ Anna-Marie McLemore

Arin used to clutch his head in disgusted wonder at how fascinated he'd once been by the daughter of the Valorian general. He used to sting at her rejection. Now, though, the thought of Kestrel gave him a cold relief. Ice on a bruise. ~ Marie Rutkoski

Enzo looks up at me. Suddenly, the blackness in his eyes seems to fade, replaced by the familiar warm brown of his irises, the red slashes, the glow of life. I see a hint of his old self there, fighting through the darkness of the Underworld to gaze at me one last time. It is the look he'd given me when we used to dance.
This is the real Enzo.
"Let me go," he whispers. It is his voice. It is the voice that once comforted me, gave me strength. And as I try to take in his words, the final tendrils of the tether linking us unravel from around my heart, freeing me. ~ Marie Lu

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you."
"Thanks.You're very kind. ~ Marie Lu

Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Four tall stories were stacked haphazardly on top of each other, cresting in a black roofline against the cobalt night sky that made no sense, but leapt whimsically from flat to dangerously steep and back again. Trees with skeletal limbs, badly in need of a trim, scraped against slate, like oaken nails on the lid of a coffin. ~ Karen Marie Moning

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

I couldn't find any humble pie this early in the morning, but the cream-filled [donuts] are chock full of humility. ~ Jean Marie Bauhaus

One heroic act doesn't make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you? ~ Marie Lu

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer. ~ Teena Marie

She'd had her way, and had the top
the third time
informing him he was her 'own private playground'. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Noodle snapped. No more cookies in the cookie jar. ~ Stacey Marie Brown

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. ~ Henri Poincare

The moon may drive men mad but it can calm a savage girl, for it is cool, precise, it is lucid. ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald

Love is the cruelest myth of all. ~ Marie Hall

The initial shock isn't as hard as the weeks that follow." He sipped his coffee as Zach lifted his head. "Right now you still think he'll walk through the door. That he'll have something to say. But you know he's gone. Then you'll go through the arrangements, the funeral, and those who will come to pay their respects," he continued. "Then next week you'll pick up the phone to call him and he won't be there. ~ Bernadette Marie

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way. ~ Lisa Marie Presley

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Later, I wished that I had called to her, that I had said I missed her as soon as she turned to walk away. I wished she had seen how I brought my hand to my cheek. Her touch shivered down my back. ~ Marie Rutkoski

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

When the younger son was no longer considered a human being by the people around him, he felt the profundity of his isolation, the deepest loneliness one can experience. He was truly lost, and it was this complete lostness that brought him to his senses. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Prayer for others, therefore, cannot be seen as an extraordinary exercise that must be practiced from time to time. Rather, it is the very beat of the compassionate heart. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Self-love is an incredible equalizer. When self love is running the show, the over giver learns to honor their own yes's and no's. In the same way the over taker learns to honor another person's yes's and no's. ~ Christina Marie

Then we're on the same page. Same paragraph, same sentence," I snapped. "Same bloody word," he agreed flatly. ~ Karen Marie Moning

No, thanks," I reply. "I don't like fried dough. ~ Marie Lu

Be Bold! Be Strong! Cling to thoughts of victory and deliverance. You are Victorious By Design! ~ Ann Marie Bryan