Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Future
  • Way
  • Religious

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Future
  • City

• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Political
  • Opinion

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • May
  • Future
  • Know

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Great
  • American
  • Think

• We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Opinion

• I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Future
  • Want
  • Education

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Opinion

• Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Fun

• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Important
  • Game
  • Lawyer

• Right now, everybody is nervous. I would sure hate to see us go into free agency without (a new CBA) done. The other thing I'm hoping for is the date to be extended.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Done
  • Free
  • Hate

• Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • House
  • Presidential

• You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Future
  • Opinion
  • Avant-Garde