Albert Camus Quotes

We are all special cases.

Albert Camus

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• People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Cases

• With increased surveillance its not unusual that you would pick up more cases.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Up
  • Cases
  • Surveillance

• She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Family
  • Done
  • Today

• There are others. We will compare our cases (and) dialogue with the Danes.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Cases
  • Dialogue
  • Compare

• When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Actors

• Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Women
  • Pain
  • inspirational

• I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity or sexual orientation in the modern world. It is absolutely unacceptable. And it is not the case in Russia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Modern

• The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Conflict
  • Cases
  • Crimea

• In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Situation
  • Cases
  • Arrogant

• Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Cases
  • Reminder

• There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

  

  Confucius
  • Flower
  • Cases
  • Produced

• The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cases
  • Refuse
  • Golden Rule

• There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

  

  William Trevor
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Cases

• ... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Behavior

• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  

  William Banting
  • Pain
  • Interest
  • Cases

• In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Film
  • Cases
  • Saws

• In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

  

  William Godwin
  • Question
  • Rule
  • Understood

• I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Tombstone
  • Nightmares
  • Used to

• Pharaoh Chephren (circa 2600 B.C., Fourth Dynasty), who built the second Giza pyramid.

  

  Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Built
  • Pharaoh Chephren
  • Giza Pyramid

• I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Animal

• When one is an artist, what else can he be?

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Artist

• We are all special cases.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Cases