Emil Cioran Quotes

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Emil Cioran

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• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Weird
  • Someone

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Movies

• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Leaders

• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Cooking

• I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • Skills
  • Technological

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Before

• There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Decision
  • Car

• I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • People
  • Think
  • Years

• I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Kids
  • Exercise
  • Talk

• And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Think
  • Best
  • White

• In real life, I swear by Edge Control by Olive Oil. My hairstylist hates it, but it's everything to me. And I mean everything! It's like a perm in a little jar of gel.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Life
  • Real
  • Control

• I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Law

• It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

  

  Nicos Anastasiades
  • Kitchen
  • Causes
  • Obligation

• Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.

  

  William Cowper
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Grieving

• Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

  

  Emil Cioran