Albert Camus Quotes

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Albert Camus

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• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Community
  • Football
  • Player

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • Know
  • Build

• Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Done
  • Death
  • Man

• Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Gucci

• I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • Trying
  • Money

• So many people - it’s just hard to believe, but just so many people dead, so many people gravely injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace. The horror is beyond description. The families of these wonderful people are totally devastated, and they will be forever. Likewise, our whole nation and indeed the whole world is devastated.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.

  

  Chip Gaines

• It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Reason

• Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • White
  • Line

• A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Resists