Emil Cioran Quotes

No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Simple
  • Impact
  • Others

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Distance

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Enough
  • Structure

• Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

  

  A. James Clark
  • English
  • Rome
  • Letter

• NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Development
  • Collaboration

• I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Particular
  • Associate
  • Ramp

• We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best.

  

  OMI
  • Pretty
  • Best
  • Shoes

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Man
  • Sun

• But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Use
  • Get
  • Could

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• Those who know how to think need no teachers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Think
  • Know
  • Teacher

• The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Saying

• People want to be Christians too cheaply, and consequently they are not Christians at all. Salvation has to cost, it has to cost everything, at least as far as the disposition of the heart is concerned.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • People
  • Heart

• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• It’s amazing to have people singing a song back to you on a stage. It’s great to finish recording a song and play it for your friend, and they love it. That feels good. But nothing feels better than when you’ve finished something and you know it’s good, and you know that those other responses will come in time.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Justice

• I no longer need to rule the world, Chay-Ara. I now have the ability to change it.

  

  Casper Crump
  • World
  • Change
  • Ability

• It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • You
  • Difficult
  • Flying

• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Convince
  • Believes
  • Approval

• I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don't want to be like your parents.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Parents

• No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?

  

  Emil Cioran