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
  • Chefs
  • Admiring

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• 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

• We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Best
  • Acting

• 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

• The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Shoes

• What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

  

  James Wan
  • God
  • Funny

• When you walk on the road and people scream out your name, the high is unparalleled.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Road
  • Name
  • Scream

• I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Hand
  • Taken

• Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

  

  Elmer Diktonius
  • Bird
  • Longing

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

  

  Emil Cioran