Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Time
  • Nature

• I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Problems
  • News
  • Move

• When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • American
  • Better
  • Poverty

• I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Player
  • Hands
  • I Can

• If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Today
  • Technology

• Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Time
  • Help

• Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Think
  • Years

• The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

  

  Samuel McChord Crothers
  • Trouble
  • Facts
  • Many

• There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Real

• By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you will gently tune yourself to the vibrational frequency of your Broader Perspective. To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational vantage point, you are in alignment with, and therefore in the process of attracting, only what you would consider to be the very best of your world.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • World
  • Spiritual
  • Feelings

• The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Live
  • History

• For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • History
  • Wonder

• Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • Moving
  • Picture

• History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • History
  • Born
  • Cemetery