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

• 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

• 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

• Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • War
  • Cold

• You go through stuff, and you keep going.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Done
  • Why
  • Together

• For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Stories

• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Silence
  • Door

• The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Profound
  • Essence
  • Masters

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

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt