Albert Camus Quotes

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

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• Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Certain
  • Vampire
  • Almost

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Age
  • Never
  • Certain

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Value
  • Seriously

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Kid
  • Seriously
  • Comics

• When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Taken
  • Open

• More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Female

• People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Taken
  • Years

• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Idea

• If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Me
  • Kiss
  • Seriously

• To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Power
  • Amazing
  • Taken

• I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Fact

• All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Home
  • Guitar
  • Seriously

• In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Long
  • Certain
  • Break

• Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Different
  • Girl

• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Disappointment

• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Friendship

• A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • True
  • Purpose
  • Newspaper

• God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.

  

  Kathleen H. Hughes
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Through

• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Certain
  • Seriously
  • Conclusions