Emil Cioran Quotes

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Emil Cioran

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Think
  • Culture

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Food

• Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
  • Effort

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Problems

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• Programs like TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, formerly known as AFDC) and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. In effect, they create, as we have seen, future welfare recipients. Or tax spenders.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Future

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• They weave a slow andante as in sleep,Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keepA treachery of silence; infinite.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Sleep

• It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.

  

  Corbin Bernsen

• I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

  

  Jeff Minter
  • Mind

• So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

  

  Bonnie Bassler

• The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.

  

  Linda Gray
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Taken

• I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Lost

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

  

  Eric Bogosian

• Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

  

  John Hurt
  • Amazing

• We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Hope
  • Human Beings
  • Meeting