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 -
The man of humanity delights in mountains.
Confucius -
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling -
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
Laura Wasser -
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
Immanuel Kant