Emil Cioran Quotes

Nothing is indefensible - from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime.

Emil Cioran

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• All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mad

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Movement
  • Baltimore

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Man

• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation

• Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.

  

  Taliesin
  • May

• I will choose only the least harmful way for the country. And that is the greatest benefit I am conferring on the country by embracing Buddhism; for Buddhism is a part and parcel of Bhâratîya culture. I have taken care that my conversion will not harm the tradition of the culture and history of this land.'

  

  Babasaheb
  • Country
  • History
  • Culture

• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Wisdom
  • Fool
  • Envy

• ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν

  

  Aeschylus

• Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Waiting

• As an artist, you’re never happy with anything you do. It’s part of the process. You’re never really happy. I’m certainly not. That’s a good thing. It means you’re always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Hope

• I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you're performing, you're aware that the people around you, because they haven't been afforded the respect that they deserve, they're not as invested.

  

  Jessalyn Gilsig
  • People
  • Respect

• Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People

• When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • May
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.

  

  Brother Yun
  • World
  • Place
  • God's Word

• I'm a tomboy naturally; I grew up hanging up with boys.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Up

• Nothing is indefensible - from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime.

  

  Emil Cioran