Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Important
  • Think
  • Christian

• But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Stop

• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Feeling
  • Lost
  • Period

• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pretty
  • Living
  • Rejection

• I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Art
  • Really
  • Get

• Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Business
  • City
  • Will

• Art is my life and my life is art.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work
  • You
  • Language

• I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • College
  • Still
  • Toy

• 'Outlander' is based on a group of books; there's a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic - we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Small
  • Relationship

• It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

  

  Banks
  • Beautiful
  • Hard
  • Public

• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Thankful

• Following the sexual revolution of the Sixties, dating has become a form of Russian roulette. Some girls have traditional religious values and mean to remain virgins until marriage. Others are leery of AIDS, unsure of what they want, but can be convinced. For others, anything goes: they’ll jump into bed on the first date. What’s a guy to do?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Guy
  • Religious
  • Marriage

• Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Brother
  • Sad

• I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

  

  Daniel Okrent
  • Time
  • Stop

• I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Energy
  • Involved
  • I Feel

• The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

  

  David Means
  • Life
  • Work

• Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt