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

• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Diversity

• Don't compare yourself with anyone else. The world is full of runners, so you'll probably see one every time you circle the block or your favorite park. Some will be thinner than you, some smoother-striding, some faster. But don't let this get you down. There's only one runner who really counts: you. Running is your activity. Make it work for you, and don't worry about anyone else.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • World
  • Running
  • Worry

• Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.

  

  Deborah Needleman
  • Natural
  • State
  • Damage

• We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it.

  

  John Morgridge
  • Environment

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

  

  Emil Cioran