Emil Cioran Quotes

What am I, other than a chance in the infinite probabilities of not having been!

Emil Cioran

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• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I never dread going back to Congress.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Back
  • Going
  • Congress

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Respectful
  • Admiring
  • Chefs

• Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Become
  • Fragments

• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Strong
  • Support
  • City

• I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Girl
  • Designer
  • Label

• I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Justice
  • Angry

• The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Truth
  • Water
  • Truth Is

• If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim - and if they used both halves of their brains - then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Freedom

• The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • May

• Honestly, I'm as rebellious as I used to be and my definition of shaking things up isn't what it used to be.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up

• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • American

• This means that gravestones are fragile and granite is softer than wax. Absurd, absurd, absurd! From such absurdity I shall soon turn gray or change into another person. Why do you beckon me with your hand? For one moment of peace I would give the peace of the tomb.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Why
  • Peace
  • Hand

• Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Frozen

• To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Freedom

• The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten

• Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Time
  • Work
  • Age

• The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Book
  • Truth
  • Effort

• If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

  

  Meher Baba
  • God
  • Heart
  • Search

• Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Nature
  • Taste
  • Connected

• What am I, other than a chance in the infinite probabilities of not having been!

  

  Emil Cioran