Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• Fashion breaks my heart.

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Breaks

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Road

• 'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Free
  • Law
  • Competition

• The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Savage

• Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • War
  • History

• No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Great
  • Career
  • Judging

• I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Technology

• Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

  

  John Wesley
  • Believe
  • She
  • Nature

• I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.

  

  Kenneth Clark
  • Single
  • Wonder

• I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Work
  • Culture

• There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

  

  Agathon
  • Death
  • Seek
  • Misfortune

• I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Business
  • Death
  • Decision

• Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Death
  • Life is
  • I Know