Emil Cioran Quotes
Only what we have not accomplished and what we could not accomplish matters to us, so that what remains of a whole life is only what it will not have been.Emil Cioran
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
Ted Deutch -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
Victoria Osteen
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
Fidel Castro
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
Yul Brynner -
It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
Val McDermid -
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I have a strong affinity for animals.
Dana Ashbrook
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
Dee Rees -
What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
Walel Watson -
But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.
Chris Priestley -
Only what we have not accomplished and what we could not accomplish matters to us, so that what remains of a whole life is only what it will not have been.
Emil Cioran