Emil Cioran Quotes

There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

Emil Cioran

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• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Space

• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • You
  • Thought

• I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Drama

• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Will
  • Open

• It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hate
  • Hateful
  • Hotels

• I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.

  

  Hal Ashby
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Philosophy

• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

• I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• I never quite toed the line.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Never
  • Line
  • Quite

• On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Ambition
  • Scale

• I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Friends
  • True

• The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Job
  • American

• The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth

• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present

• … I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • World
  • Different
  • Happy

• The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Education should be the daily bread of the people of Cuba.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Children
  • Money

• In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Life
  • May
  • Action

• I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • School
  • Job
  • College

• It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Experience
  • Satisfies
  • Human Relations

• With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Cosmos

• There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

  

  Emil Cioran