Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980

Topics

MyselfSoulI AmSinAnythingSure

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Joe Lhota

New YorkCityNewInvolvedMayor

We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

PerfectJesus ChristNeverGoing

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.

Joey Ramone

GoodNobodyWillNeverRamones

I am totally a director's actor.

Sridevi

I AmActorDirectorAmTotally

You can't force an audience to see something they don't want to see, no matter what it is.

Roberto Orci

YouWantMatterAudienceSeeForce

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

Roger Mahony

BlameAmericaImmigrantsMexicoDays

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

Michel Faber

LifeTimeMeDebtWayEverything

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Mitt Romney

WishAttentionLostDisappointedMay

I had a very happy childhood.

Juan Antonio Bayona

ChildhoodHappyHappy ChildhoodVery

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

PoliticsAmericanPoliticalNothing

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

Clive Owen

MyselfHeroActionThinkAction Hero

You have to pick your battles on set.

Claire Danes

YouBattlesYourPickSet

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