Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • American
  • Selling

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Man

• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • Good
  • Small

• I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Guy
  • You
  • Way

• Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Nobody
  • Washington

• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Want
  • Play
  • Limitations

• My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Dad
  • Cancer
  • Uncle

• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • May
  • Think
  • Possible

• There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • May
  • Simple
  • Sometimes

• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Feet

• Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Sea of upturned faces.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Sea

• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • God
  • Nature

• When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Die

• My hair has always been a definitive part of my personal style, so I love being part of a campaign that celebrates hair as a form of expression.

  

  Camila Mendes
  • Style
  • Hair

• What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

  

  Kyle Gallner
  • Different
  • Drama
  • Animal

• You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • People

• Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Scary

• It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre