Emil Cioran Quotes

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Emil Cioran

• Genius
• Remains
• Fears
• Mediocrity
• Talents

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• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • Value
  • Chances

• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Change

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Success Is

• There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

  

  Brownie McGhee
  • Good

• As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Feelings
  • Disappointment
  • Coach

• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Always
  • Feelings
  • Blues

• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gold

• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Insomnia

• I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Satisfaction
  • Score
  • Winners

• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Never
  • Humanity

• God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Work
  • God
  • Age

• The goal we have set for ourselves, which is to diversify our cooperation with China, is making progress.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Progress
  • Goal
  • China

• The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Genius

• A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Genius
  • Remains
  • Fears