Christian Lous Lange Quotes

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

Christian Lous Lange

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• For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Water
  • Thought
  • Greatest

• Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Work
  • Long
  • Women

• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • World
  • Music
  • Community

• I grew up in New York.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Choose
  • Public

• I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • Career
  • Question

• It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Best
  • Road
  • Eye

• Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Health
  • Care
  • Impossible

• A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Moral

• Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • War
  • Morning

• I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Think
  • Two
  • Jerusalem

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Truths
  • Wearing
  • Cologne

• A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Doing
  • Jazz

• I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Habit
  • Bored

• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Imagination

• I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Spiritual

• I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

  

  Fred Melamed
  • God
  • Believe
  • Children

• Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Words
  • Wisdom
  • Master

• The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

  

  Christian Lous Lange