Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Time
  • Health
  • Myself

• American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • American
  • Know
  • Management

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Deep

• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• The audiences love to see me fight on screen.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Fight
  • See
  • Screen

• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Done
  • Why
  • Know

• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Funny
  • Clean

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare

• I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Television

• The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Best
  • Process

• Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

  

  Umar
  • Fear
  • Inspiring
  • Fortune

• Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Book
  • America

• Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

  

  George Eliot
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Needs

• There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Church
  • Differences

• I don't Twitter every day. I just think we should be more thoughtful with what we share. I don't care that you're turning a light on right now. That's great and all, but there's got to be a balance there.

  

  Jeremy Camp
  • Balance
  • Share
  • Twitter

• Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Needs
  • Stars
  • Sea Spaces