Albert Camus Quotes
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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The world is no nursery.
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True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
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And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
