Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

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• Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Comfort
  • Comfortable

• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Never
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Comfort
  • Preppy
  • Sweats

• I like stepping out of my comfort zone.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Great
  • Find
  • Comfort

• The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Teen
  • Throw

• We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Memories
  • Comfort
  • Protection

• How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Important
  • She
  • Nature

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Comfort
  • Familiar
  • Familiarity

• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Jump

• The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Work
  • Art
  • House

• Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Interests
  • Governments
  • Phrase

• Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Future

• Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Stills
  • Despair
  • Nerves

• The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Comfort
  • Element
  • Compulsion

• This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Comfort

• Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

  

  Allan Jacobs
  • Comfort
  • Streets
  • Moderate

• It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Up
  • Children
  • Society

• Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heaven
  • Creation
  • Hell

• I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Comfort
  • Despair
  • Phrase