Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944

Topics

ManDieBecomeQuestionBeingLast

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

John Niven

SportsBeachHellBuildingsBeing

Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

Jeff Ross

MasterOutGetDodgeNeedsRoast

I've worn makeup for so long, my skin needs it.

Jeffree Star

MakeupLongSkinNeedsWorn

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

Merle Haggard

FeetBackSurgerySomeWhichHad

'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

Steve Erickson

TimeOceanCareerBornFirstRight

Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LawFreeKeyStandMediaOthers

When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.

Roscoe Mitchell

GoodPeopleStrongYouConnection

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeThoughtsThinkingThoughtPush

I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'

Lisa Lampanelli

GodMyselfPeopleMeOpinionSay

Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.

Liu Xiaobo

LoveIceIntenseBlacknessRemote

The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.

Joseph David-Jones

FearCharacterHistoryPeopleBook

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren't unique.

Jonathan Dee

WorkPathMeUniqueImportantYoung

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