August Strindberg Quotes
Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.August Strindberg
Quotes to Explore
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Abbe Pierre -
All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony -
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
Gary Lineker -
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
Gavin Newsom -
The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane -
I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
Natalie Wood
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When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
Aaron Neville -
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
Adam Peaty -
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
Manish Dayal -
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
Sam Abell -
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler -
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
Wellington Mara -
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick -
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams -
The tours are campaigns.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
Tamara Mellon
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In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy -
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
Ricky Whittle -
There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
Arthur Ashe -
Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.
August Strindberg