Top 100 Quotes About Simone
#2. You're an asshole."
"And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.
Simone Elkeles
#3. Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.
Simone Weil
#4. God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused.
Sierra Simone
#6. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone Weil
#7. Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
#8. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
Simone Weil
#9. How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?
Simone De Beauvoir
#10. Yeah, right. I don't believe that one for a minute. What do you think? I fell off a turnip truck? (Simone)
Honestly? All I was thinking about was how beautiful you are. How much I wanted to feel your skin against mine and how I've never been this attracted to a woman before. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.
Sierra Simone
#12. I have trust issues."
"I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that.
Simone Elkeles
#13. I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Simone Weil
#14. I wish I could help you" I whisper.
You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.
Simone Elkeles
#15. The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
Simone De Beauvoir
#16. I'm staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded
and I'm dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the
opposite of blue. I don't want blue. Blue confuses me too much.
Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.
Simone Elkeles
#17. I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.
Beth Simone Noveck
#18. All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Simone Weil
#19. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
#20. There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
Robert Wyatt
#21. I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
Hannah Simone
#22. But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.
Simone De Beauvoir
#23. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
Simone Weil
#24. Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
Simone De Beauvoir
#25. 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.
Sierra Simone
#26. The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
Simone Weil
#27. Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
Simone Weil
#28. The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Simone Weil
#29. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
#30. Como un angel," I whisper.
"Is our game over?" she asks nervously.
"It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.
Simone Elkeles
#31. Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
Simone Weil
#32. I'm losing control."-Brittany
Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex
Simone Elkeles
#33. The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
Simone Weil
#34. The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days ... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone De Beauvoir
#35. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.
Simone De Beauvoir
#37. The scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .
Simone Elkeles
#38. Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good ... but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me?
Simone Elkeles
#39. Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil
#40. Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.
Simone Weil
#41. As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
#42. We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
#43. As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light - it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#44. For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected ... and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.
Simone Campbell
#45. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
#46. All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Simone Weil
#47. We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.
Jose Gonzalez
#48. The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.
Simone Weil
#49. I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil
#50. Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
Simone De Beauvoir
#51. 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
Chris Hedges
#52. I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Nina Simone
#54. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.
Rudy Simone
#55. Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Nina Simone
#56. 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
#57. If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
Simone Signoret
#58. My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
Simone De Beauvoir
#60. I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don't understand, I actually like you ... most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. I guess we're all a bunch of mismatched couples - that actually fit
Simone Elkeles
#62. 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.
Simone Weil
#63. Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
Simone Weil
#65. History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Simone De Beauvoir
#66. 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.
Simone De Beauvoir
#67. There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil
#68. 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.
Simone De Beauvoir
#69. I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#70. We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.
Simone Elkeles
#71. The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.
Simone De Beauvoir
#72. I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
Simone De Beauvoir
#73. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan."
"I suspect I am a hooligan.
Simone Elkeles
#74. You once said you loved me. Do you still?"
My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.
Simone Elkeles
#75. The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
Simone Weil
#76. Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.
Simone Elkeles
#77. The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
Simone De Beauvoir
#78. 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.
Simone De Beauvoir
#79. To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil
#80. The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#81. I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Simone Signoret
#82. 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.
Nina Simone
#83. Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.
Simone Elkeles
#84. Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Nina Simone
#85. We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
Simone De Beauvoir
#86. Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
Simone Weil
#87. Oh, fuck my life. I'm in love with this moron.
Kay Simone
#88. I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.
Simone De Beauvoir
#89. He made me use my mad voice, Laxmi,
Kay Simone
#91. Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Simone De Beauvoir
#92. In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
Simone Weil
#94. Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
Simone Weil
#95. You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.
Simone Elkeles
#96. Her eyelashes made me hard. That was a new benchmark for me, I had to admit.
Sierra Simone
#97. The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity.
Celeste Simone
#98. One of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11
Simone De Beauvoir
#99. Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
Simone Weil
#100. We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.
Simone Weil
