Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

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• If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

  

  Jack Ma
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• Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

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• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Man
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• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Poor

• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
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  • Hand

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Champion

• The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Action
  • Police
  • Belief

• Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Black
  • Fall
  • Mean

• We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Decision

• When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Mountain