Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Man

• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Believe
  • Want
  • I Believe

• American literature has always been immigrant.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Always
  • Literature

• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Night
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  • Mom

• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • People
  • True
  • Taken

• I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Working
  • Kennedy
  • Ted

• I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Think
  • Discipline
  • Down

• If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?

  

  Sallust

• For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War
  • Brave

• My philosophy has always been, 'do what you love and the money will follow.'

  

  Amy Weber
  • Money

• Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!

  

  Donald Glover
  • World
  • Men
  • Why

• To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Game
  • Chess

• There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

  

  John Pilger
  • Up
  • Great
  • War

• The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Game
  • Human Life
  • Feature