D. Simone Quotes

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

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

Humility is attentive patience.

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

I'm excited to explore lifestyle clothes for a little bit. I don't necessarily have favorite brands.

If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.