Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Day
  • Courage

• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  

  Ed Wood
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Successful

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Adventure

• The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Change
  • Where
  • Advancement

• My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Theater
  • Ensemble
  • Closeness

• I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Work
  • Healthy
  • I Can

• There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

  

  Chris Gabrieli
  • People

• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Baby
  • Grace
  • Grateful

• I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.

  

  Ella Baker
  • May
  • Relationship
  • Effort

• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • War
  • Adventure