Emil Cioran Quotes

Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Emil Cioran

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• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • America
  • Idea
  • Newborn

• I just want to have fun.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Education
  • Serious

• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Family
  • Myself

• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Humor
  • Take
  • Sense Of Humor

• The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Home
  • American
  • Dream

• This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Weird
  • Older
  • Meryl Streep

• I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Think
  • Animal
  • Share

• I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Better
  • Tennis

• Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Sometimes
  • Shoe

• I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Crazy
  • Healthy
  • Gym

• Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Art
  • Philosophy
  • Law Of Life

• I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • House
  • Baby
  • King

• The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

  

  Elton Gallegly
  • Taken

• Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Time
  • Together

• Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Sweet
  • Revenge