Albert Camus Quotes

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Albert Camus

• Change
• Die
• Sunset
• Astonishing

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• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Sunset

• If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Change
  • Paradox

• I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Game
  • Change
  • Same

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Music
  • Live
  • Heart

• I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Power
  • Change

• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Change
  • Idea

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Change
  • Choice

• Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Change
  • Matter

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Night

• People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.

  

  Andre Comte-Sponville
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Transform

• I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Away

• Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Greatness

• What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Change
  • Die
  • Sunset