Emil Cioran Quotes

To be or not to be...Neither one nor the other.

Emil Cioran

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• People always want to doubt you.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Want
  • Doubt

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Remember

• A secret is powerful when it is empty.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Powerful
  • Secret
  • Empty

• Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Work
  • Home
  • Forever

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Growing
  • Stop

• I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Like
  • Now
  • Content

• I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Negative

• This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Time
  • Women
  • Woman

• Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Problem
  • Russian
  • Hacking

• As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Good

• Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Chess

• Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • World
  • Long
  • City

• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Broken

• Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sacrifice

• I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Serious
  • Gymnastics

• Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Revenge
  • Indifference

• This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sound

• Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.

  

  Mark Salling
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• To be or not to be...Neither one nor the other.

  

  Emil Cioran