Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone de Beauvoir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986

Topics

LifeAgeTimeDeathOld AgeDestiny

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

Joel Salatin

ChanceShortMoreAnythingSystem

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

Melissa Bean

ResponsibilityPastPeopleAmerican

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

Melvyn Bragg

TimeMemoryMeStartUniverseSand

I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.

Andie MacDowell

AmazingLookingYouFindDownSalad

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

LifeFamilyLoveCharacterMeRoad

Storytelling is my true passion.

Amanda Warren

PassionTrueStorytelling

I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?

Trent Reznor

PeopleFreeYouI CanKnowLiving

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

Rosemarie DeWitt

MomentTogetherGet TogetherYouSay

I'm homemade. I upload my videos in my living room; I edit everything, and I upload on my laptop. And my viewers love that about me, and they get inspired and do it themselves.

Michelle Phan

LoveMeLivingEverythingRoomGet

I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs.

Michael Porter

BusinessSocietyThinkTryingActing

A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.

Mo Williams

ManYouKnowOthersWhoHe

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

Chris Evans

MeGrowing UpRoadLookPicturesUp

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