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

• Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Beloved

• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Serious
  • Virtue

• I know so many kids who literally are, like, Instagram-famous. They have done nothing but post pictures on Instagram. And they have followings. People love to see them in person, but it's only because they post on their Instagram. It's literally crazy. Kids will paint a picture of themselves that is so far beyond who they actually are. It's like they're wearing someone else's skin.

  

  Willow Smith
  • People
  • Kids
  • Crazy

• The messenger is not as important as the message.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Important
  • Message
  • Messenger

• 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