Emil Cioran Quotes

Try as I will, I don't see what might exist...

Emil Cioran

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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Today
  • Like
  • Variety

• An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • America
  • Freedom

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Tomorrow

• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Question
  • Answers

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Live
  • Me
  • Eat

• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Always
  • Found
  • Fact

• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Tired
  • Year
  • Sickness

• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Protect

• Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • God
  • Different

• No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Night
  • Dance

• He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Pride

• 'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Ironic

• Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Fashion
  • Sea

• I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

  

  S. E. Cupp
  • Women
  • Political

• Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy - the joy of the man who know that he has killed wisely and well.

  

  Anthony Boucher
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Killed

• No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

  

  Amal Clooney

• Try as I will, I don't see what might exist...

  

  Emil Cioran