Emil Cioran Quotes

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Emil Cioran

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• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Want
  • Always
  • Hunger

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Think
  • Win
  • Fight

• By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Prosperity

• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Think
  • Style
  • Democracy

• Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Leadership

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Year
  • Freshman
  • Third

• I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Better
  • Fight

• I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lucky

• The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Dark

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• 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

• If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Me
  • Will

• A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Me

• My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • People
  • Memory
  • Discussion

• I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

  

  Ann Beattie

• Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine, guard it well.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Guard
  • Haste
  • Breast

• I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Feels
  • Stories
  • Students

• Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • Christians
  • Jews
  • Muslims

• Routine is part of coping.

  

  Lorene Scafaria

• Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

  

  Emil Cioran