Emil Cioran Quotes

The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.

Emil Cioran

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Something
  • Clothes

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Once
  • Magnet

• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Been
  • Skin

• It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Cancer
  • Australia

• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Up
  • Effort

• The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Money
  • Education
  • Need

• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Bad
  • Worry
  • Name

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Award

• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Myself

• You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Voice
  • Honor
  • Same

• I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Know
  • Always
  • Sick

• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • World
  • School
  • Media

• When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Live
  • Rome
  • Romans

• I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

  

  Mario Lopez
  • Women
  • Learning
  • Study

• The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • World
  • Light
  • Sun

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Bones
  • Chickens
  • Hatched

• The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.

  

  Emil Cioran