Elsa Triolet Quotes

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

Elsa Triolet

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Career
  • Soldier
  • Been

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
  • Habits

• No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Real
  • Family
  • Why

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Union
  • Martyrdom
  • Matrimony

• I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • People
  • Like
  • Psychology

• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Youth
  • Perfection
  • Aim

• I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Like
  • Hollywood
  • Bathroom

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Health
  • Point
  • Workaholic

• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Hockey
  • Ice
  • Harvard

• Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

  

  Elsa Triolet
  • Happiness
  • Astonished