Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
Simone de Beauvoir
Quotes to Explore
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
Dana Carvey
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren
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If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
Joe Sacco
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From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
Leland Stanford
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Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.
Marc Ostrofsky
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
Bob Newhart
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.
Jaime Pressly
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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
Immanuel Kant
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Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.
David Suzuki
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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
F. F. Bruce Quotes
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For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.
Xavier Forneret
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
Simone de Beauvoir
