Albert Camus Quotes

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Albert Camus

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• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Home
  • Most
  • Google

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Want
  • Change
  • Improvement

• And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

  

  Jack London
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Judge

• I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • World
  • Airplane

• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Why

• When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • People
  • Health
  • Preparation

• I've been a part of a couple of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia nights, and watching the Dead's fan base be so passionate reminds me of what Jerry was so much about, making the community a better place.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Community
  • Couple

• And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Hope

• People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

  

  Blanka Vlasic
  • People

• I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Work
  • Silence

• You know, Republicans went to Washington to change the culture, to change the city. Instead, they became changed by Washington. Now, it doesn't do any good for us to look backwards or to fight amongst ourselves. We need to be looking forward.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Good
  • Culture
  • City

• There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • Reality
  • Question
  • Mistakes

• I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Power
  • Help

• In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Simplicity
  • Superman