Albert Camus Quotes

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

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• I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Romantic

• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Career

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

  

  Mae West
  • Like
  • Go
  • Far

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Len Wein
  • Different
  • Beginning
  • Story

• I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

  

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
  • Door

• Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

  

  R. R. Reno

• I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Wind

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Heart
  • Taken

• America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Morning
  • Singing

• There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Show
  • Mercy
  • Bathroom

• La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Party
  • Causes

• We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Laugh
  • Racism
  • Crime

• We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Art
  • Parents
  • Learned

• There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Mean

• I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mean
  • Learned
  • Felt