Albert Camus Quotes

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Albert Camus

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• Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Profit
  • Industries

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Peace
  • Civilization

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Change

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Living
  • Just

• What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Future

• I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Work
  • Myself

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • Father
  • Best

• If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

  

  E. L. James
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Nice

• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Politicians
  • Journalists

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Said
  • Luck

• I don't believe in rituals that produce luck. I believe that a good preparation can raise my chances for a callback. With that, I know what I need to do, so I go in there and do my best.

  

  Vincent Rodriguez III
  • Luck
  • Preparation
  • Rituals

• I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • People
  • Literature

• If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • People
  • Remember
  • Earth

• In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Luck
  • Gambling
  • Coerced