Simone Weil Quotes

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simone Weil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DaySufferingThinkPovertyKnow

There are ways that we, as a society, the laws that we write and the contracts we build, can try to actually increase people's ability to reap the reward from their own potential. But we put barriers in front of them.

Joe Kennedy III

PeopleSocietyPotentialRewardTry

I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

Anjelica Huston

HateMeSayingThinkLovedAnything

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

Jean Pigozzi

Black And WhiteColorsWorldBlack

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

Amitava Kumar

IdentityWritingImportantFiction

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

Trent Reznor

ImpossibleMatterBecomeHolding On

I had a very happy childhood.

Juan Antonio Bayona

ChildhoodHappyHappy ChildhoodVery

I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

Debra Stephenson

BusinessI AmPeopleMeFeelNeed

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

Donatella Versace

BusinessWomanDesignSuccessfulMix

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Chris Lilley

ClassAlwaysBottomWellVery

I think it was in high school when I was listening to Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch or Avril Lavigne - that time when female pop rock was really having a moment - and it really resonated with me. I started writing poetry, and I was learning how to play guitar at the time, but I didn't really put the two together for a while.

Chelsea Lankes

LearningTimeMomentTogetherPoetry

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Brian De Palma

PeopleResearchYouInformationKnow

My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

LifeTelevisionSayWayMy OwnLine

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