Albert Camus Quotes

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Albert Camus

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
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• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Law
  • Try
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• Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Believe

• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • God
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• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
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• I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Blue

• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Catholic
  • Differences
  • Adults

• It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • People
  • Economy
  • Income

• Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Aspirations
  • Attach

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  

  William James
  • Success
  • Positive
  • Successful

• Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Fire
  • Virtue
  • Treading

• Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Passion
  • Loves
  • Excess

• You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Finding Yourself
  • Losing Yourself

• I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Opinion

• I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Time
  • Pieces
  • Shops

• Probably would have been sitting on the bench with Connecticut. Who knows? That's just hypothetical stuff you can't even project. But it certainly is a talented team. The growth that he has had here, I think, has been a beneficial factor for him in his overall game.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Team
  • Growth

• One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Movies
  • Actors
  • Great Things

• Give up the tyranny of female charm.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Tyranny
  • Give Up
  • Charm