Albert Camus Quotes

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing

• Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Live
  • Together
  • Peace

• My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Hope
  • Belief
  • Mission

• Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Learn
  • Pressure

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Man

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

  

  Gary Allan
  • Cool
  • Door
  • Fans

• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Political
  • Democracy

• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Woman
  • Old
  • Diet

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Poetry
  • Humor
  • Loved

• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • School
  • Kids
  • College

• Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Book

• An extension of Planck's ideas, due to Prof. Niels Bohr of Copenhagen, went on to suggest that... the ultimate particles of matter would be seen to move not like railway trains running smoothly on tracks, but like kangaroos hopping about in a field.

  

  James Jeans
  • Running

• Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Country
  • Small

• Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Learning
  • Consciousness
  • Image