Emil Cioran Quotes

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

Emil Cioran

Quotes to Explore

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

Sally Ride
- Running
- Space
- Hiking
Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

Fabrizio Moreira
- Business
- Success
- City
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

Patrick deWitt
- Death
- Desire
- Write
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Nate Silver
- People
- American
- Chaos
I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

Edmund Phelps
- Up
- Age
- Parents
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Salman Rushdie
- City
- Like
- Boy