Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Quotes to Explore
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.'
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
