Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Best

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Sometimes
  • Magic
  • Down

• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Job
  • Feeling

• It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Marriage

• Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Friend

• Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

  

  Emil Cioran

• Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Sometimes