Klas Pontus Arnoldson Quotes

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

• Men
• Heart
• May
• Hope
• Hate
• Action
• Confidence
• Vision
• Ignorance

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• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Religious
  • Persecution

• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

  

  Sally Field
  • Heart
  • Sad
  • Broken

• Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Vision
  • Grow
  • Advertising

• Writing is agony. I hate it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Agony

• For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Hope
  • Spring
  • Poland

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Care

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

  

  Lisa See
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Dreaming

• I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.

  

  Laurie Holden
  • Sleep

• Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Play

• Killing time takes practice.

  

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  • Practice
  • Killing

• Being able to do what I do in the ring and out of the ring is evidence that I'm not from this world.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • World

• Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

  

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May