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

• This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Rest
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• It's funny because as much as I've done Dr. Freeman, I guess because I shave right afterwards, people don't recognize me necessarily as Dr. Freeman, whereas a small role like 'Garden State' or 'Get Him to the Greek', which is the funniest one to me, they're like, 'Hey, you're that dude!' and you're like, 'Oh my God!' Which is awesome.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• I never make conscious decisions.

  

  Anthony Hopkins

• I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Optimistic

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

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Sweet
  • Revenge