Albert Camus Quotes

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Albert Camus

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Changed

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Man
  • Science

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Help
  • Child

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Remember
  • War

• Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Effort

• For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Law

• It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

  

  Billy Crystal

• Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

  

  David Wain
  • Work
  • Great

• Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

  

  David Farr

• We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

  

  Paula Deen
  • People
  • Today
  • Stop

• You need to put your head down and... try not to lose hope.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Hope

• If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.

  

  Marcus Luttrell

• When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Important
  • True
  • Dream

• You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.

  

  Brett Brown
  • Fire
  • Understand
  • Gasoline

• The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Practice
  • Pleasure
  • Creation

• Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

  

  David Brewster
  • Moon
  • Sky
  • Made

• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Criticism
  • Creation
  • Rebellion