Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
Quotes to Explore
-
My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
-
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
-
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
-
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
-
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
-
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
-
When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
-
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
-
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
-
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
-
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
-
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
-
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
-
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
-
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
-
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
-
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
-
You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.
-
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
-
Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.
-
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
