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

• I actually love doing comedy!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Actually

• 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

• [Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Faces
  • Hilarious

• Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Revolution

• There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Up
  • Time

• It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Risk
  • Mistake
  • Limits

• Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

  

  Cathleen McGuigan
  • Book
  • Like
  • Lunch

• Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

  

  Emil Cioran