Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Immortality is a terrible curse.

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• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  

  Vera Wang
  • True
  • Past
  • Myself

• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • American
  • High

• I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Live
  • Want
  • Plans

• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Country
  • Age
  • Father

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Secret

• Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

  

  John Tillotson

• It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

  

  Plato
  • Way
  • I Think
  • Excellence

• The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Scientific
  • Artificial
  • Classification

• Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Creation
  • Treasure
  • Exists

• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Charity
  • Blessing

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Hungry
  • Images
  • Concrete

• Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

  

  William Blake
  • Night
  • Bible
  • Read

• And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Death
  • Faithful

• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

  

  Anton Ehrenzweig
  • Art
  • Age
  • Immortality

• Life is the childhood of immortality.

  

  Daniel A. Poling
  • Childhood
  • Immortality

• Immortality is a terrible curse.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Immortality
  • Curse