Albert Camus Quotes

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Albert Camus

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• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Me
  • Challenges

• This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Money
  • Priority

• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Peace

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Age
  • Years

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Tax
  • Corporate
  • Breaks

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Taxes
  • Drive
  • Roads

• I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mom
  • Computer
  • Tough

• In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Humanity

• I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Peg Bundy

• Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Man
  • Destiny

• Natural science is throughout either a pure or an applied doctrine of motion.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Science

• Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Today
  • Value

• When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom complete with personalities, what effect does this have on abortion legislation?

  

  Emily Martin

• Films like 'Namo Venkateshaya' give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel blessed, and so I consider it the best film in my career.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Career
  • Blessed

• I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Professional

• For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

  

  William Dalrymple
  • Writing
  • Travel
  • Hands

• Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Hope
  • Flood
  • Cup

• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Food

• So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Machine