Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Worked

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Future
  • Fighting
  • Possibilities

• The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • True
  • Balance
  • Sympathy

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• Awe and respect are two different things.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Different
  • Respect
  • Two

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • World
  • May
  • Food

• It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Life
  • Country
  • Peace

• I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Dad

• You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
  • Good

• I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Single
  • Simple

• It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • People
  • Risk
  • Effort

• Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Up
  • Children
  • Black

• Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I've had a front row seat to lots of things in life.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • People
  • Life

• We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Poverty
  • Means
  • Circle