Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Simone Weil

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Competition

• I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Find
  • Theater

• When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Want
  • Husband

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Literature
  • Wealth

• Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Always
  • Alive
  • Radio

• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Friend

• One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Hope
  • Thoughts

• Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.

  

  Selena Gomez

• On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Home
  • Gold
  • Sorry

• I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Work
  • Pain

• If you really want to wind up Piers Morgan, send him a pic of Jeremy Clarkson.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Up
  • Wind

• So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • People

• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Technology

• I'm - like, 80% of the time, I'm the biggest health nut. I'm usually really healthy.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Time
  • Health

• They will have a much better idea of what the requirements are when they rebuild their house. It will have to meet certain criteria if they have flood insurance.

  

  Marvin Davis
  • House
  • Idea
  • Insurance

• When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Important

• ...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Book
  • House
  • Design

• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Progress
  • Idea
  • Poison