Simone Quotes

#1. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. #Quote by Simone Weil

#2. I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one? #Quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah

#3. Marry me, Kiara," he blurts out in front of everyone.
"Why?" she asks, challenging him.
"Because I love you," he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, "and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein' your face every mornin', I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I'd be six feet under ... and because I love your family like they're my own ... and because you're my best friend and I want to grow old with you." He starts tearing up, and it's shocking because I've never seen him cry. "Marry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin' about was comin' back here and makin' you my wife. Say yes, chica. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#4. I was glad to put the whole thing behind me, because I wanted every child, regardless of race, to be able to look at my Worlds win and say, I can dream big too. I wanted them to know that following your dreams - not just in gymnastics, but in everything - shouldn't have anything to do with the color of your skin. It should only be about finding the discipline and the courage to do the hard work. #Quote by Simone Biles

#5. I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent. #Quote by Iris Murdoch

#6. I tried to love you less.I couldn't. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#7. The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species, so man and wife together undergo the oppression of an institution they did not create. If it is asserted that men oppress women, the husband is indignant; he feels that he is the one who is oppressed - and he is; but the fact is that it is the masculine code, it is the society developed by the males and in their interest, that has established woman's situation in a form that is at present a source of torment for both sexes. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#8. I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#9. Man's great affliction, which begins with infancy and accompanies him till death, is that looking and eating are two different operations. Eternal beatitude is a state where to look is to eat. #Quote by Simone Weil

#10. The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. #Quote by Simone Weil

#11. His eyes search mine. "So why did I want to meet you today? Because I haven't been able to stop wanting to meet you for ten years. Because I want you. I want to kiss you again. I want to learn everything about you, everything about what you love and hate, what you study, what you want for your future." He reaches up, his thumb brushing against my lower lip. "I want you to be mine. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#12. Being brave is not as easy as it looks. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#13. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist. #Quote by Elkeles Simone

#14. There is no justice, Malcolm had told her once, but we stand for it anyway. Justice is the ideal, but justice is not the reality. #Quote by Simone St. James

#15. Those who have walked through the fire rarely speak well of the flames. #Quote by Val Edward Simone

#16. It's a good time for black people to be alive. #Quote by Nina Simone

#17. But for the last couple of weeks I've had this bizarre sensation that something is watching me. (Simone)
You mean someONE, right? (Tate)
I know it sounds crazy – (Simone)
I just had a body walk off the table mid-autopsy and you think your story is nuts? (Tate) #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. The entire virtue of religious practices can be conceived from the Buddhist tradition concerning the recitation of the name of the Lord. It is said that the Buddha made a vow to raise up to himself all those who recite his name with the desire to be saved by him, into the Land of Purity; and that because of this vow the recitation of the name of the Lord really has the virtue of transforming the soul. Religion is nothing else but this promise of God. Every religious practice, every rite, every liturgy is a form of the recitation of the name of the Lord, and must in principle really have virtue, the virtue of saving anyone devoted to it with desire. Every religion pronounces the name of the Lord in its own language. Most often, it is better for people to name God in their own native language rather than in a foreign language. Apart from exceptions, the soul is incapable of completely abandoning itself in the moment if it must impose on itself even a minor effort in searching for words in a strange language, even when they know it well . . . A change of the religion is for the soul like a change of language for the writer. Not every religion, it is true, is equally apt for the correct recitation of the name of the Lord. Certain ones, without a doubt, are very imperfect intermediaries. The religion of Israel, for example, must have truly been a very imperfect intermediary for having crucified Christ. The Roman religion scarcely even deserves the name of religion. But in a genera #Quote by Simone Weil

#19. To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God. #Quote by Simone Troisi

#20. Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her? #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#21. dropped to my knees. My face was level with her belly button, and I touched my forehead against her belly, breathing in and out as something so foreign I couldn't name it soared inside me, expanded until I thought my chest would crack open with it. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#22. In war, demonization of the enemy is a central parameter in the behavior of a combatant. Likewise, in hotel marketing, demonization of OTAs is a central parameter in the behavior of an entrepreneur #Quote by Simone Puorto

#23. She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven't done in years - barnyard sounds. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#24. Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#25. I always refer to the Lutherans first. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#26. A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#27. Art is an attempt to integrate evil. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#28. However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#29. Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. #Quote by Simone Weil

#30. The body is the instrument of our hold on the world. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#31. It is incontestable that the void which we grasp with the pincers of contradiction is from on high, for we grasp it the better the more we sharpen our natural faculties of intelligence, will and love. The void which is from below is that into which we fall when we allow our natural faculties to become atrophied. #Quote by Simone Weil

#32. But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it! #Quote by Simone Berteaut

#33. It is a mistake to seek in fantasies the key to concrete behaviour; for fantasies are created and cherished as fantasies. The little girl who dreams of violation with mingled horror and acquiescence does not really wish to be violated and if such a thing should happen it would be a hateful calamity. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#34. Patriotism is idolatry of the self. #Quote by Simone Weil

#35. There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#36. Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#37. When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself. #Quote by Jose Gonzalez

#38. I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone. #Quote by Nina Simone

#39. It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
the desire that perpetually burns within us
for an infinite and perfect good. #Quote by Simone Weil

#40. To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#41. That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#42. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. #Quote by Yael Naim

#43. There was once a man who lost his shadow. I forget what happened to him, but it was dreadful. As for me, I've lost my own image. I did not look at it often; but it was there, in the background, just as Maurice had drawn it for me. A straightforward, genuine, "authentic" woman, with out mean-mindedness, uncompromising, but at the same time understanding, indulgent, sensitive, deeply feeling, intensely aware of things and of people, passionately devoted to those she loved and creating happiness for them. A fine life, serene, full, "harmonious." It is dark: I cannot see myself anymore. And what do the others see? Maybe something hideous. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#44. My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#45. To silence the puppeteer, you need only destroy the puppet. #Quote by Val Edward Simone

#46. Brit: What's your major?
Alex: Chemistry. And yours?
Brit: Chemistry. Kiss me so we can see if we still have it. 'Cause you own my heart, my soul, and everything else in between. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#47. I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be #Quote by Nina Simone

#48. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240. #Quote by Maggie Nelson

#49. Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush? #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#50. If they want to flirt or initiate a friendship, they should carefully avoid giving the impression they are taking the initiative; men do not like tomboys, nor bluestockings, nor thinking women; too much audacity, culture, intelligence, or character frightens them.

In most novels, as George Eliot observes, it is the dumb, blond heroine who outshines the virile brunette; and in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie tries in vain to reverse the roles; in the end she dies and it is blond Lucy who marries Stephen. In The Last of the Mohicans, vapid Alice wins the hero's heart and not valiant Cora; in Little Women kindly Jo is only a childhood friend for Laurie; he vows his love to curly-haired and insipid Amy.

To be feminine is to show oneself as weak, futile, passive, and docile. The girl is supposed not only to primp and dress herself up but also to repress her spontaneity and substitute for it the grace and charm she has been taught by her elder sisters. Any self-assertion will take away from her femininity and her seductiveness. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#51. Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. #Quote by Simone Weil

#52. The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#53. When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics. #Quote by G. Willow Wilson

#54. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. #Quote by Simone Weil

#55. Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I'm not a pirate, and she's not my captured princess. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#56. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. #Quote by Simone Weil

#57. In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#58. As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#59. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#60. There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#61. But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are false friends of God. Our neighbour, our friends, religious ceremonies and the beauty of the world do not fall in rank to unreal things after direct contact between God and the soul. On the contrary, only then do these things become real. Previously, they were half-dreams. Previously, they had no reality. #Quote by Simone Weil

#62. I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls. #Quote by Hannah Simone

#63. Tuck holds out his hand. "By the way, I don't think we've been formally introduced. I'm Tuck. You know, rhymes with luck."
"And fuck," Carlos adds.
"Yep, that, too," Tuck says unfazed. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#64. So while you're imitating Al Capone,
I'll be Nina Simone,
And defacating on your microphone #Quote by Lauryn Hill

#65. All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#66. We cannot take a single step towards heaven.
It is not In our power to travel in a vertical direction.
If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
He raises us easily. #Quote by Simone Weil

#67. And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#68. Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#69. Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first unequivocally posit oneself as a freedom. The restrictions that education and custom impose on a woman limit her grasp of the universe...Indeed, for one to become a creator, it is not enough to be cultivated, that is, to make going to shows and meeting people part of one's life; culture must be apprehended through the free movement of a transcendence; the spirit with all its riches must project itself in an empty sky that is its to fill; but if a thousand fine bonds tie it to the earth, its surge is broken. The girl today can certainly go out alone, stroll in the Tuileries; but I have already said how hostile the street is: eyes everywhere, hands waiting: if she wanders absentmindedly, her thoughts elsewhere, if she lights a cigarette in a cafe, if she goes to the cinema alone, an unpleasant incident can quickly occur; she must inspire respect by the way she dresses and behaves: this concern rivets her to the ground and self. "Her wings are clipped." At eighteen, T.E. Lawrence went on a grand tour through France by bicycle; a young girl would never be permitted to take on such an adventure...Yet such experiences have an inestimable impact: this is how an individual in the headiness of freedom and discovery learns to look at the entire world as his fief...[The girl] may feel alone within the world: she never stands up in front of i #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#70. The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#71. It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#72. But there are other
roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#73. He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#74. If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter. #Quote by Gail Simone

#75. I can't tell you how I felt when my father died. But I was able to write Song of Solomon and imagine, not him, and not his specific interior life, but the world that he inhabited and the private or interior life of the people in it. And I can't tell you how I felt reading to my grandmother while she was turning over and over in her bed (because she was dying, and she was not comfortable), but I could try to reconstruct the world that she lived in. And I have suspected, more often than not, that I know more than she did, that I know more than my grandfather and my great-grandmother did, but I also know that I'm no wiser than they were. And whenever I have tried earnestly to diminish their vision and prove to myself that I know more, and when I have tried to speculate on their interior life and match it up with my own, I have been overwhelmed every time by the richness of theirs compared to my own. Like Frederick Douglass talking about his grandmother, and James Baldwin talking about his father, and Simone de Beauvoir talking about her mother, these people are my access to me; they are my entrance into my own interior life. Which is why the images that float around them--the remains, so to speak, at hte archeological site--surface first, and they surface so vividly and so compellingly that I acknowledge them as my route to a reconstruction of a world, to an exploration of an interior life that was not written and to the revelation of a kind of truth. #Quote by Toni Morrison

#76. Its history is an especially rich and intriguing one for women: the great salons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave women an intellectual influence and freedom; in the nineteenth century, for the bohemian and the flâneuse pleasure and revolution were a seductive mix; in the mid-twentieth century, Paris spelled freedom for Simone de Beauvoir who set the standard for contemporary feminism in her exhilarating The Second Sex. #Quote by Catherine Cullen

#77. Do you taste that?" I ask, pressing the pads of my fingertips onto her tongue. "That's the taste of the pussy I'm about to fuck. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#78. I believe in finding a man who can be your best friend, because once the lust fades, friendship is what will hold the foundation of your marriage together. #Quote by Nicole Simone

#79. Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on ... that's the coolest. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#80. Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#81. ... he would ask me a thousand little questions, just, he said, to sound out the future a little. #Quote by Simone Schwarz-Bart

#82. Shelley, you think she'll take me back?" Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at full speed.
"Yeah!" Shelley yells with a goofy, gummy grin. She looks happier and more content than she's been in a long time. Both of my favorite people are with me right here; what more could I ask for? #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#83. I won't have sex with you, she blurts out.
He words slam into my libido like a bucket of water on a flame full of testosterone. I think my dick just twitched in protest. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#84. The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. #Quote by Simone Weil

#85. No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. #Quote by Simone Weil

#86. One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#87. Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#88. I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#89. We have a saying, my people. Don't kill if you can wound, don't wound if you can subdue, don't subdue if you can pacify, and don't raise your hand at all until you've first extended it". #Quote by Gail Simone

#90. They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#91. I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#92. I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one asked my advice, and I knew no other rule but my whims. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#93. We humans need one another. We live in a big house with many rooms. Right now our home is on fire. If you're going to try to put out the fire, you've got to first agree on one fundamental point--everyone in the house is worth saving. #Quote by Ivory Simone

#94. Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego. #Quote by Simone Weil

#95. I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#96. You know,just because you can deal with bullshit on your own doesn't mean you should." - Derek Fitzpatrick #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#97. We know what happens when two people fall in love. It's happened between each of us. We have to find out what happens when three people fall in love. All together, all at once. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#98. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#99. Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#100. The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it. #Quote by Simone Weil

#101. When someone joins a party, it is usually because he has perceived, in the activities and propaganda of this party, a number of things that appeared to him just and good. Still, he has probably never studied the position of the party on all the problems of public life. When joining the party, he therefore also endorses a number of positions which he does not know. In fact, he submits his thinking to the authority of the party. As, later on, little by little, he begins to learn these positions, he will accept them without further examination. This #Quote by Simone Weil

#102. I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#103. Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those
big, comfy granny panties she's got on. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#104. Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#105. This was love, this was sacrifice, the opposite of sin, and maybe it was fucked up to feel like God was here with us in the back room of a strip club, but I did, like He was bearing witness to this moment where Poppy opened herself to the worst of me and erased it with her love, just like God did for us sinners every moment of every day. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#106. Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#107. Just FYI," Lenny says, his face still red from the nasty sunburn. "I've got a shitload of condoms in my duffle. Front pocket."
"For what?"
"Listen if you don't know what condoms are for I'm not gonna teach you."
"I know what they're for, shithead. I just highly doubt you're getting any ass on this trip."
"Watch me," Lenny says. "My boy gets action all the time."
"Yeah, I bet your right hand is tired from all that action" I mumble as I walk to the bathroom. "I'm a leftie!" Lenny calls after me.
I try not to wince from thinking about it. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#108. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. #Quote by Simone Weil

#109. One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#110. Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#111. For the soldier death is the future, the future his profession assigns him. Yet the idea of man's having death for a future is abhorrent to nature. Once the experience of war makes visible the possibility of death that lies locked up in each moment, our thoughts cannot travel from one day to the next without meeting death's face. #Quote by Simone Weil

#112. Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. #Quote by Simone Weil

#113. I think that too many strangers were in Nina Simone life, and not enough people that she knew and loved. #Quote by Nikki Giovanni

#114. Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers). #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#115. There was life after fucking up, after all, even for those who lived without fucking. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#116. Today I believe that, under the specially privileged conditions in which I exist, life contains two main truths which we must face simultaneously, and between which there is no choice - the joy of being, the horror of being no more. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#117. Why do we make gardens? The act seems so extravagant, so illogical. Don't we have enough hard work in our lives already? Are we looking for more? Why on earth do we bother?
It takes a kind of courage. You have to learn to cherish. You have to dare, to take the risk, to bother, to care. To make a garden, you have to be able to love and to see yourself as capable of nurturing.
It takes patience, too. If the garden is to thrive you must commit yourself to it for years, for the creation of a garden takes place over time. Like a child, a garden has needs that have to be met, whether we feel like it or not, day after day.
You have to have confidence. You have to take charge and be responsible. You have to act upon the garden.
And you have to let it act upon you. Because it will act upon you. And will knit you together with the rest of the world. It will not let you stand apart.
The challenge is hard, but it is irresistible. To get dirty, to get involved. To act and be acted upon. That is life. If we stop accepting that challenge, we stop living. #Quote by Simone Martel

#118. In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. #Quote by Simone Weil

#119. But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#120. From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#121. I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges
me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up
as drug dealers. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#122. Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang. I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works. #Quote by Tammy Blackwell

#123. It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#124. What stops them is that as soon as they give the word "end" its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#125. I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#126. Si vis amari, ama," you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#127. Two weeks later I'm the last one in the locker room to change for gym. The click of heels makes me look up. It's Carmen Sanchez. I don't freak out. Instead, I stand and look right at her.
"He was back in Fairfield, you know," she tells me.
"I know," I say, remembering the hand warmers in my locker. But he left. Like a whisper, he was there and then disappeared.
She looks almost nervous, vulnerable. "You know those giant stuffed-animal prizes at the carnival? The kind practically nobody wins, except the lucky few? I've never won one."
"Yeah. I've never won one, either."
"Alex was my giant prize. I hated you for taking him away," she admits.
I shrug. "Yeah, well, stop hating me. I don't have him, either."
"I don't hate you anymore," she says. "I've moved on."
I swallow and then say, "Me, too."
Carmen chuckles. Then, just as she walks out of the room, I hear her mumble, "Alex sure as hell hasn't."
What's that supposed to mean? #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#128. I think with sadness of all the books I've read, all the places I've seen, all the knowledge I've amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. They made no honey, those things, they can provide no one with any nourishment. At the most, if my books are still read, the reader will think: There wasn't much she didn't see! But that unique sum of things, the experience that I lived, with all its order and its randomness - the Opera of Peking, the arena of Huelva, the candomblé in Bahía, the dunes of El-Oued, Wabansia Avenue, the dawns in Provence, Tiryns, Castro talking to five hundred thousand Cubans, a sulphur sky over a sea of clouds, the purple holly, the white nights of Leningrad, the bells of the Liberation, an orange moon over the Piraeus, a red sun rising over the desert, Torcello, Rome, all the things I've talked about, others I have left unspoken - there is no place where it will all live again #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#129. I now know why people break up in e-mails and text messages.
Doing it face-to-face is so hard because you have to stand in front of the person and
witness their reaction. Face their wrath. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#130. Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become submissive adored objects. They do not suffer from the penis envy Freud postulated, but from power envy. #Quote by Mary Pipher

#131. I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production. #Quote by Hannah Simone

#132. The form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of out lives. Some circumstances prevent the very birth of this love; others kill it before it has been able to grow very strong. In affliction some men, in spite of themselves, develop a hatred and contempt for religions because the cruelty, pride, or corruption of certain of its ministers have made them suffer. There are others who have been reared from their earliest youth in surroundings impregnated with a spirit of this sort. We must conclude that in such cases, by God's mercy, the love of our neighbor and the love of the beauty of the world, if they are sufficiently strong and pure, will be enough to raise the soul to any height. #Quote by Simone Weil

#133. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. #Quote by Simone Weil

#134. Where'd you find her?
He picked me out of a catalog. #Quote by Megan Hart

#135. I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time. #Quote by Nikki Giovanni

#136. There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. #Quote by Simone Weil

#137. The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre. #Quote by Hannah Simone

#138. Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the park railings, gave me an exhilarating sensation of adventure. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#139. Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#140. Paco Fuentes, Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#141. On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself
on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#142. The secret he keeps, the lies he tells. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#143. I thought, this is what it's like to be torn apart for love. This is what it means to be reborn. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#144. Let me get someone to drive you home," I say before my fucked-up mind thinks of a million ways I could violate her tonight. I'm buzzed from alcohol and high, too. When I have sex with this girl, I want all my faculties.
She purses her lips and pouts like a kid. "No. I don't want to go home. Anywhere but home."
Oh, man.
I'm in trouble. Tengo un problema grande.
She looks up at me, her eyes in the moonlight sparking like rare, expensive jewels. "Colin thinks I want you, you know. He says our bickering is foreplay."
"Is it?" I ask, holding my breath to hear her response. Please, please let me remember the answer in the morning. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#145. Listen Chica-" Carlos says when we're driving to my mom's store
"don't call me that anymore" I tell him
"what do you want me to call you, then?"
I shrug "whatever. Just not Chica"
Carlos holds his hand up "what do you want me from me? You want me to tell you lies? Okay. Kara, without you i'm nothin'. Kara, you own my heart and soul. Kara,, i love you. Is that what you to hear?
"yes"
"No guy who actually says those things really mean them"
"I bet your brother says them to Brittney and means them"
"that's because he's lost all common sense. I though you the one girl who didn't fall for my bull"
"I don't. Consider my wanting you as my real boyfriend a lapse of judgement," I tell him "But i'm over it #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#146. Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#147. I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#148. Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better."
"Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead."
How's that for positivity?
I have to admit it does make me feel better. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#149. I'm standing in front of Enrique's Auto Body, doing deep-breathing exercises to keep from being nervous. Enrique's Camry is nowhere in sight, so I know Alex is alone.
I'm going to seduce Alex.
If what I'm wearing doesn't capture his attention, nothing will. I'm giving this my all…bringing out all the artillery. I rap on the door, then close my eyes tight and pray this goes as planned.
I open my long, silver satin jacket and the cool night air rushes onto my exposed skin. When the creak of the door alerts me to Alex's presence, I slowly open my eyes. But it's not Alex's black eyes staring at my scantily clad body. It's Enrique--who's staring at my pink lace bra and pom-pom skirt as if he's won the lottery.
Ripped with embarrassment, I wrap my coat around myself. If I could wrap it around twice, I would.
"Uh, Alex," Enrique laughs. "There's a trick-or-treater here to see you."
My face is probably beet red, but I'm determined to see this through. I'm here to show Alex I'm not going to desert him.
"Who is it?" comes Alex's voice from somewhere inside the garage.
"I was just leavin'," Enrique says, slipping past me. "Tell Alex to lock up. Adiós."
Enrique walks across the darkened street, humming to himself.
"Yo, Enrique. ¿Quién está ahi?" Alex's voice fades when he reaches the front of the shop. He looks at me with contemp. "Need directions or your car fixed."
"None of the above," I say.
"Trick-or-treatin' on my side of t #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#150. Force," Simone Weil wrote, "is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."2 #Quote by Chris Hedges

#151. What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. #Quote by Nina Simone

#152. Knowing Jasmine's relationship to Simone, Capone didn't want me to have no parts of her. #Quote by Jessica N. Watkins

#153. Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#154. [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that. #Quote by Viola Davis

#155. I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America's society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness. #Quote by Nina Simone

#156. I was going to see Ivy today and that was all that mattered. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#157. Some Aspergirls are happy alone and start to wonder if there's something wrong with them when society puts pressure on and asks "Aren't you lonely?" It's nobody's business what you do, and if you are happy being alone, you are not flawed, you are lucky. #Quote by Rudy Simone

#158. Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#159. God is not present, even if we invoke him, where the afflicted are merely regarded as an occasion for doing good. They may even be loved on this account, but then they are in their natural role, the role of matter and of things. We have to bring to them in their inert, anonymous condition a personal love....In true love it is not we who love the afflicted in God; it is God in us who loves them. #Quote by Simone Weil

#160. I took one last look at the man who owned my body and soul for so many years. His face twisted into a mask of sheer devastation. I wanted to reach out and console him, to say everything would work out. It wouldn't though, not until he put his family before his career.
"I never thought our love story had an end," Luke said faintly.
Clicking the door shut, I slid down the wooden frame into a heap on the floor. Sobs racked my body as I echoed the same sentiments in my head. Our love story shouldn't have had an end. Only a beginning. #Quote by Nicole Simone

#161. To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#162. This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?
What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you? #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#163. Miss Ellis?" Mrs. Perterson says. "It's your turn. Introduce Alex to the class"
"This is Alejandro Fuentes. When he wasn't hanging out on street corners and harrassing innocent people this summer, he toured the inside of jails around the city, if you know what i mean. His secret desire is to go to college and become a chemistry teacher, like you Mrs. Peterson."
Brittney flashed me a triumpnet smile, thinking she won this round. Guess again, gringa. "This is Brittney Ellis," I say, all eyes focused on me. "This summer she went to the mall, bought new clothes to extend her wardrobe, and spent her daddy's money on plastic surgery to enhance her, ahem, assets. Her secret desire is to date a Mexicano before she graduates."
Game on ... #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#164. Who says happy endings are only in fairy tales?
Pray, believe and wait patiently on God
and He will make a fairy tale out of you #Quote by Simone DaCosta

#165. The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#166. For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#167. One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history. #Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

#168. This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#169. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#170. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope). #Quote by Sloane Crosley

#171. I'm willing to find out what this thing is going on between us. Are you?"
"If we weren't outside," he says, "I'd show you--"
I cut him off by grabbing the thick hair at the base of his neck and pulling that gorgeous head of his down. If we can't exactly have privacy right now, I'll settle for being real. Besides, everyone who we need to keep this a secret from is in school.
Alex keeps his hands at his side, but when I part my lips, he groans against my mouth and his wrench drops to the ground with a loud clink.
His strong hands wrap around me, making me feel protected. His velvet tongue mingles with mine, creating an unfamiliar melting sensation deep within my body. This is more than making out, it's . . . well, it feels like a lot more.
His hands never stop moving; one circles my back while the other plays with my hair.
Alex isn't the only one exploring. My hands are roving all over him, feeling his muscles tense beneath my hands and heightening my awareness of him. I touch his jaw and the roughness of a day's growth scratches my skin #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#172. It is an artist's duty to reflect the times. #Quote by Nina Simone

#173. Kind, open and non-judgmental people do not "mutate" me as I like to call it, and these are the people I do want to be around. #Quote by Rudy Simone

#174. All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. #Quote by Simone Weil

#175. I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed. #Quote by Nina Simone

#176. There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did. #Quote by Damien Rice

#177. I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#178. This time Simone did not smile at all.
"I cannot tell that to you, child. This is a
secret I am not allowed to talk about. I only hope that you will
know how to follow the true and right path. And now, farewell!" She
turned around and walked away between the bookshelves, disappearing
from their sight.
Nirupa looked at the book she held in her
hand. On its thick front cover she read:
"Atlantis."
Deep shudders shook her body. She turned her
head and looked at Miss Bell, who also looked numb with fear.
"Now that we have started the adventure, me
must carry it through to the end," Ni whispered to Miss Bell,
opening the book. She did not have time to see what was written
inside because, once the first page was open, a whirl of warm air
sucked Ni and Miss. Bell inside, In the twinkle of an eye they
found themselves standing up on the main street of a magnificent
bazaar. #Quote by Leora Cika Waldman

#179. The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#180. Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#181. The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. #Quote by Simone Weil

#182. Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. #Quote by Simone Weil

#183. But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#184. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. #Quote by Simone Weil

#185. I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing. #Quote by Simone Muench

#186. Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement. #Quote by Simone Weil

#187. It is not a matter of approaching a fixed limit: absolute Knowledge or the happiness of man or the perfection of beauty; all human effort would then be doomed to failure, for with each step forward the horizon recedes a step; for man it is a matter of pursuing the expansion of his existence and of retrieving this very effort as an absolute. Science #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#188. We weren't ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation - why were we so afraid of sex? #Quote by Sierra Simone

#189. No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for this abandonment by everyone. Formerly, I had been quite satisfied with myself, but I had taken very little trouble to increase my self-knowledge; from now on, I would stand outside myself, watch over and observe myself; in my diary I had long conversations with myself. I was entering a world whose newness stunned me. I learned to distinguish between distress and melancholy, lack of emotion and serenity; I learned to recognize the hesitations of the heart, and its ecstasies, the splendor of great renunciations, and the subterranean murmurings of hope. I entered into exalted trances, as on those evenings when I used to gaze upon the sky full of moving clouds behind the distant blue of the hills; I was both the landscape and its beholder: I existed only through myself, and for myself… My path was clearly marked: I had to perfect, enrich and express myself in a work of art that would help others to live. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#190. The world is God's language to us. #Quote by Simone Weil

#191. When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it. #Quote by Hannah Simone

#192. Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel. #Quote by Nina Simone

#193. Learn to live, love and laugh ... And to enjoy a good story when there is one to be heard. #Quote by Val Edward Simone

#194. As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#195. In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk. #Quote by David Foster Wallace

#196. Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. #Quote by Simone Weil

#197. Is it weird to pray during sex? Maybe it is, but sometimes it happens. I've tried to accept that it's who I am - a man who loves God, and who loves fucking, that I can be dirty and holy all in the same moment. #Quote by Sierra Simone

#198. A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says.
Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work. #Quote by Simone Elkeles

#199. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#200. Then Father Vito gave me this verse for my meditation: 'When God opens a door, no one closes it; when God closes it, no one opens it.' [cf. Rev. 3:7]. #Quote by Simone Troisi