Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

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• It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Model
  • Grow

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Shows

• Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Freedom
  • Know
  • Oppression

• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • Great
  • Future

• Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Myself
  • Genius
  • Say

• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Pain
  • Football
  • Season

• There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Up
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Business
  • Genius

• Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Money
  • History
  • Pretty

• I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Admit

• I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Important
  • Live
  • Present

• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• A god that can be understood is not a god.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • God

• I have Bright's disease and he has mine.

  

  S. J. Perelman

• You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

  

  Rick Mears
  • Happened
  • Enthusiasm
  • Combination

• I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.

  

  Betty White
  • Truth

• There is a built-in appreciation for music that is so much a part of the LDS culture. Utahns know that music can be divine and can touch a person's spirit in a unique way.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Unique

• The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht