A Quote by Avital Ronell

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Avital Ronell

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Clear Make Perfectly Reactionary Real Things

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Avital Ronell
American - Philosopher
Born: April 15, 1952

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Blaise Pascal

In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

Leonard Jacobson

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

Michael Ignatieff

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Charles Edison

It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.

Jean Liedloff

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

Byron Katie

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Karl Kraus

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Richard Wilbur

Donald Trump is perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit.

Roger Stone

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

Henry A. Kissinger

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

Amy Tan

One thing is perfectly clear: We don't need another China crony in the White House!

Chuck Norris

With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.

Khloe Kardashian

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.