Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.


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We had to reinforce with our staff that [the takeover] makes sense. We are the catalyst to help driv...
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As rates rise, there would be more demand because most investors are interested in protecting themse...
HENLEY SMITH
We thrive on volatility. That's better for me because it will broaden my trading ranges that we can ...
HENLEY SMITH
The argument in the bond market is not that it's inflationary but it's a drag on disposable income, ...
HENLEY SMITH
We're slowing down our growth in spending in Asia, but we're not going into a retrenchment mode. Tha...
JEFF HENLEY
Nine months ago, we set out to save one billion dollars annually by using our own Internet e-Busines...
JEFF HENLEY
Nobody knows exactly how this year is going to play out, ... We do know there was a bubble of spendi...
JEFF HENLEY
A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett...
JEFF HENLEY
We have an enormous sales pipeline for both applications and technology, ... Typically that's proven...
JEFF HENLEY
As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft an...
JEFF HENLEY
Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology...
JEFF HENLEY
Our visibility going forward remains very limited, as has been the case for the last 18 months,
JEFF HENLEY
Solid execution in the field, a strengthening competitive position, and an improving economy contrib...
JEFF HENLEY
Given the difficult global economy and the increasing uncertainty caused by the impending war in Ira...
JEFF HENLEY
Coach (Lavin) has been telling us to crash the net, so that is what I did on that play. Everyone kne...
TOM HENLEY
Feminism was a dirty word. Women's issues weren't being adequately covered.
RITA HENLEY JENSEN
We're delving into the psychology of undercover work that they weren't able to do in the series - wh...
BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY
You saw every strata of the African American community, ... the doctor, the janitor, the guy who jus...
BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY
Saturday, May 22d.---It is now Saturday night, and I must prepare for the holy Sabbath. My Bible and...
JAMES HENLEY THORNWELL
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETON
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the pu...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is usef...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist&...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY