Albert Camus Quotes

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

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• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Well
  • Lifestyle
  • Urban

• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • School
  • Small
  • Small Town

• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Why
  • America
  • High

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Book

• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Find
  • Dogs

• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Never Too Late

• When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • City
  • Retire

• Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Interesting
  • Like
  • Things

• Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Lost
  • Day
  • Goals

• Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Done

• In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Judge
  • Reach
  • Impression

• This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Time
  • Community
  • Genius

• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Retaliation