Albert Camus Quotes
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Quotes to Explore
-
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
-
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
-
It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
-
The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
-
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
-
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
-
If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
-
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
-
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
-
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
-
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
-
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-
A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
-
At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
-
Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
-
I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
-
If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.
-
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
-
Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
-
'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
-
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
-
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
