Simone Weil Quotes

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Simone Weil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943

Topics

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Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

John Burnham Schwartz

Never ForgetYouForgetBecomeNever

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

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With 'The Exorcist,' a lot of things went into it. I hadn't seen the show until they asked me, and then I checked the show out and thought it was very well done.

John Cho

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It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

Stacey Dash

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I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.

Tomie dePaola

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I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

Tom Perrotta

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French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Alma Gluck

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In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

Wole Soyinka

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How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

Richard Dawkins

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I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

Marley Dias

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We're always ready for a pick-up game. I walk through the park on the way home every day and just think to myself, 'I'll take on any of these kids.'

Kerby Jean-Raymond

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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Kevin Bacon

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