Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Choose

• Acting's boring.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Acting
  • Boring

• Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Years
  • Size

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Lose
  • Sides

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Health

• Tollywood is where I made a name for myself, and it's all thanks to the love and affection my fans have showered on me. The least I can do in return is to learn to speak the Telugu language correctly.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Language

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Shoes

• It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure

• Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Interesting

• Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Hope

• Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• ...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • American
  • Words

• It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Winning

• When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Important
  • Christian

• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Going
  • Out
  • Beaten

• As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Hate

• Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Bitter
  • Poisonous
  • Juices