Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.Simone de Beauvoir
Quotes to Explore
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Iris Murdoch -
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
Charles J. Shields -
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
Yvon Chouinard -
I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.
Larry Burns -
'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
Alan Alda -
Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
Ueda Akinari
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What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.
Barack Obama -
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
Zaha Hadid -
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Oscar Wilde -
Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball.
Paul Waner -
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
Jack Roy -
Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.
Jack Roy
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I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.
Drew Carey -
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
Parker Posey -
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.
Nathanael Greene -
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de Beauvoir