Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Business
  • Think
  • Know

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• The centre of gravity of any hemisphere is on the straight line which is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.

  

  Archimedes

• When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

  

  Lisa Randall
  • World
  • Explore

• When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beach

• With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Time
  • Why
  • Confidence

• A stronger global hub at Bush means a stronger economic future for Houston.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Future

• We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Service
  • Catholic

• No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys' table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

  

  James Mattis

• By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

  

  James Mattis
  • Work
  • Men
  • Business

• I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Time

• Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Happy
  • Small

• I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.

  

  Adriana Barraza
  • Time
  • Words
  • Effort

• A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

  

  Jim Bunning
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Older cliches are retrieved both as inherent principles that inform the new ground and new awareness, and as archetypal nostalgia figures with transformed meaning in relation to the new ground.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Partner

• Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Destiny
  • Extraordinary Things

• There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

  

  Francis Crick
  • Universe
  • Brain
  • Study

• The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Color
  • Silence
  • Expression

• The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and try not to really think about the fact that they're not gonna be on this earth any longer, that they had an effect on you and your lives, and that's what you should take out.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Someone

• One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Destiny
  • Importance
  • Depends