Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Power
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Vision
  • Creative
  • Ability

• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Men
  • Why
  • Bad

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Phoenix

• Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Country
  • Hero

• We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People

• Your whole life is changed with that first child. Your social behaviors are all turned upside down, you're sleep deprived, but eight months in, my son had this seizure, and it just woke me up to the idea that, oh, no, this can end. And it can end in a way that will destroy you forever.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sleep

• I prefer flat shoes and comfort: I feel more like myself.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Shoes

• I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Different
  • Art
  • Japanese

• Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Existence

• As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

  

  Reid Scott
  • Remember
  • Connection
  • Species

• I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do.

  

  Ryan Stiles
  • Said
  • Information
  • Listen

• The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • People
  • Food
  • Rest

• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Unhappy