Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Simone de Beauvoir

• Reality
• Murder
• Hold

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• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Society
  • Actors
  • Secret

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Thoughts

• 'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Book
  • Political

• He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• 'You must be a prophet right enough,' said Alvin Junior, 'cause I can’t understand a thing you said.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Women
  • Freedom

• He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Important
  • Integrity
  • Intuition

• But liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. It is the realization of those imperishable truths of the Declaration 'that all men are created equal', that the sanction of all just government is 'the consent of the governed'. Can these truths be realized until each man has a right be to heard on all matters relating to himself?

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Men
  • Reality

• In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

  

  Democritus
  • Beautiful
  • Effort
  • Study

• Julian tried to keep a pleasant smile on his face, though already it felt strained. He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was that God was intervening in the minutiae of their lives, hanging around and helping them with their jobs or children or household chores as though He had nothing better to do. Maybe it was true, Julian thought wryly. Maybe that was why there were wars and murders and earthquakes and hurricanes. God was too busy helping real estate agents find new listings to deal with those other issues.

  

  Bentley Little
  • God
  • Smile
  • Jobs

• Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Reality
  • Murder
  • Hold