Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

Victor LaValle
- Time
- School
- Bad
I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

Gautam Gambhir
- Think
- Leader
- Impact
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

Carine Roitfeld
In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

T. C. Boyle
- Up
- God
- Culture
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Major Taylor
- Time
- Great
- Father
I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

Hans Kung
- Up
- Remember
- American