Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • World
  • Explore

• I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Time
  • City
  • Research

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Value

• If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Drama
  • Boring

• We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• I have no guitar technique.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Guitar
  • Technique

• I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Term

• Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Understand

• Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • You
  • Others
  • Them

• The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Big

• Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Today
  • Free

• It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Small

• I'm frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it's not meant for me. Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Cool

• Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the time for bold measures.

  

  Bono U2
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bold

• Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Justice

• Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • American

• 'I never gave a fuck, I never gave a fuck what niggas thought about me. I mean, I did, but like fuck it. You know what I'm sayin'?'

  

  Kid Cudi

• Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Soul
  • Fear
  • Change

• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Believe
  • Teaching
  • Knowing

• There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

  

  Christopher Markus
  • World
  • Art

• As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Long
  • Canvas

• The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Universe
  • Purpose
  • Design

• The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt