Emil Cioran Quotes

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Emil Cioran

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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  • Dark

• I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

  

  Wale
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• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

  Nate Silver
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• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
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• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

  

  Malcolm X
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• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Future
  • Violence

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
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• Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Light
  • Religious
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• Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
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• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Mind
  • Soul
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• World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • World

• I think diversity has to happen on a storytelling level, not just on a casting level.

  

  Kelvin Yu
  • Diversity

• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Paradise