Andre Gide Quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

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• The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Money
  • Night
  • Day

• Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Doing
  • More
  • Talking

• Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Race
  • Election
  • Still

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Seen

• My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Remember
  • Teacher
  • Name

• Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Page

• I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Voice

• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Luck

• If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Miracle

• God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Work
  • God

• But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn,With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.

  

  Aurora
  • Daughter

• People ask me the most naive questions. Someone asked me if we have indoor toilets. I can't get upset. They just don't know.

  

  Rihanna
  • People

• To me it was more about eight years of bad policy before (Obama) got there that let this happen. It was Dracula running the blood bank in terms of oil and leases. I think that has more to do with it than how the president reacted to it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Bad
  • Running

• Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Time
  • Business
  • Hand

• I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Rest

• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Stuck
  • Boxes
  • Definitions

• We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Nation
  • Elements
  • Remembered

• Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Wanted
  • Fields
  • April

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Beloved
  • You Are
  • Be Hated