Albert Camus Quotes

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

Albert Camus

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Science
  • Star
  • Students

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Christ
  • Within

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Quality
  • Democracy

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Know
  • Politics

• The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Without

• What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Legal

• Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Possible

• You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Know

• Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Opinion

• What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Feelings
  • Deserve
  • Ready

• How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • She
  • Eyes

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new: Hail Atlantis!

  

  Donovan
  • Dance

• And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle-a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Sea
  • Houses
  • Unrest