Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

  

  Orson Welles
  • America
  • Man
  • Bond

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Earth

• There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Growing
  • Years

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Losing

• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • College

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
  • Character
  • Career

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Look

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Marriage
  • Sad
  • Act

• I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Why
  • Help
  • Care

• Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don't win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.

  

  Antonio Conte

• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Country
  • Heart

• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • People
  • Historical
  • Attorney

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • My Life
  • Adventure
  • Finity