Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

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• The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Government

• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Parents
  • June
  • Navy

• Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Balance

• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • People
  • High
  • Feel

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Book
  • Holy

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Try
  • Old

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Start
  • Habit

• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Business
  • Success
  • Failure

• The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Success
  • Positive

• In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Something
  • Africa
  • Masses

• The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Power
  • Generation
  • Impact

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • Beautiful
  • Travel
  • Teenagers

• Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • God
  • Poor
  • Possess

• ' It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock
  • Tea

• The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it's hard to pin one down.

  

  Drew Bledsoe
  • Time
  • Game
  • Memories

• The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mean
  • Generations
  • Fair

• Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Revolution
  • Generation
  • Collectivity