A Quote by Honore de Balzac

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Honore de Balzac

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.

Gutzon Borglum

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Gustav Stresemann

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Antonio Gaudi

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

Rob Huebel

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

Gutzon Borglum

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John Lothrop Motley

My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

Kirk Cameron

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Grant Heslov

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Don Cheadle

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Karen Essex

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

Cynthia Ozick

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.