Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Paris
  • Streets
  • Modeling

• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Personality
  • Intelligence

• I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Know
  • Down

• My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

  

  Ed Case
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Value

• Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Respect

• The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Imagination

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• He Brendan Bracken had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • Hair

• I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

  

  Neil Innes

• People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Power
  • High
  • Political

• We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Men
  • Death

• The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • War
  • Environment

• If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Live
  • Family
  • Kids

• I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

  

  William Dobell
  • Character
  • Wanted
  • Paint

• They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Thinking
  • Old
  • Forgotten