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Simone Weil Quotes

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Progress Destination Nothing Anything

I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.

Sophie Winkleman

Love World Voice Doing Back Radio

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Work Style Personality Black Clothes

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

Knowledge Limits Understanding Year

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

Music Beautiful Children Born Whales

If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.

Think You Washington See Average

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Safety Small Down Admit Airport Out

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Good Myself Trust Selfish Others

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

Work Trust People World Saying Way

I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

Change I Am Stubborn I Am What I Am

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Letters Permanent Presence English

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Aubrey McClendon

Business Best Me Accountant Way

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

William Shakespeare

New Year's Hope Down Drink Come

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