D. Simone Quotes

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

I can, therefore I am.

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.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

Everything I do is in the gym so I'm always in gym clothes.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

To me, I go out there, and I do what I trained. We prepare so long for that moment, so it's just kind of exciting.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

Old age is life's parody.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.

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.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.