Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth -
I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
Joanne Rowling -
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria Woodhull -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria -
All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
Zeljko Ivanek -
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler -
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
Adam Grant -
I lost my confidence.
Pat Summitt -
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully -
I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
Abraham Verghese -
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
Orhan Pamuk -
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Fannie Flagg -
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou -
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
Charles Kennedy -
The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan -
I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.
David Ulevitch -
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt