Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
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• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Person

• Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happy
  • You
  • Successful

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Work
  • Home
  • She

• Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

  Candice Millard
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Library

• The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Hair

• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • May
  • True
  • High

• I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waves

• Here's ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Smooth as the hickory wind that blows from Memphis down to Apalachicola.It's 'Hi, y'all, did you eat well? Come on in, I'm sure glad to know ya.'Don't let this old gold cross and this Allman Brothers t-shirt throw ya.It's cicadas making noise with the Southern voice.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Gold
  • Wind

• I've had some incredible experiences with this organization. I owe a lot to this team and this organization and the ownership. I don't want to see that time come to an end, my time as a Cub.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Time
  • Team
  • Organization

• It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Art
  • Fun

• Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Long
  • Women
  • Worry

• You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

  

  Levon Helm
  • People
  • Different

• Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Beautiful
  • Memories
  • Red

• The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • House
  • Happiness
  • Castle