Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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