Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  

  Walter Smith
  • God
  • Down
  • Looking

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
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• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
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  • You
  • Person

• I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

  

  Dane Cook
  • God
  • Love
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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
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  • Up
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• Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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  • Literature

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • God
  • Gift

• I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.

  

  Paracelsus
  • God
  • Nature
  • Light

• Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
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• You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a 'thing'; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God
  • Children

• God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In cares of state and private plights,In rowdy feasts of friendship's band,In passion's sweet and secret rites!God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In daily woes and days of strife,On vacant sa, in distant land,In every black abyss of life!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Life
  • God
  • Friends

• I know she's not perfect but she tries so hard for meAnd I thank god that she isn't 'cause how boring would that be?It's the little imperfections, it's the sudden change in plans.When she misreads the directions and we're lost but holdin' hands.Yeah I live for little moments like that.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • God
  • Live
  • She

• I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Believe
  • Power

• I have always found the baptism of Jesus, with a dove descending and voice from Heaven, one of the great moments in the Jesus story. This is where Jesus hears the deep call from God.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • God
  • Moments

• I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • God
  • Done
  • Guy

• The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Heart
  • Desire

• Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Literature
  • Meaningful
  • Turns

• The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
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• I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • God
  • Literature
  • Believed