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

• There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • History
  • Attention
  • Nations

• The best kind of performance review is no performance review.

  

  Aubrey Daniels
  • Performance
  • Review

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

  

  William McKinley
  • Mother
  • Mean
  • Heaven

• 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