Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Simone de Beauvoir

• Heart
• Love
• Action
• Failure
• Ambiguity

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Position
  • Roles
  • Queen

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I don't wear plaid shirts.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Wear
  • Shirts

• I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Change
  • Try

• Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Meaningful

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Together
  • City

• I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Compare

• We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

  

  J Allard
  • Done
  • Holiday
  • Three

• I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Good
  • Compassion
  • Grateful

• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Boring

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • People
  • Interesting

• I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!'

  

  Charlotte Arnold
  • Great
  • Character
  • Remember

• I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Thinking
  • Lost
  • Flame

• The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Action