Emil Cioran Quotes

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • May
  • Think
  • Learn

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Love
  • Night

• Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

  

  Billy Rose
  • Painting

• I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Time
  • Player

• A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • America

• Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Great
  • History
  • Thanks

• I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Movie

• Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Different
  • Together

• As a child who lived in a lot of places, one of the hardest things for me was to join a new community. It was hardest at the kibbutz, but that was also one of the most impressive communities.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Community

• New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • World
  • Collaboration
  • Defense

• It's one of my favourite types of comedy, just the awkward moments on camera. For many people, it's unbearable to watch, but I love seeing it when it's done right.

  

  Jason Jones
  • People
  • Done
  • Comedy

• Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Today
  • Desire

• If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Desire
  • Actions
  • Inspires