Karel Capek Quotes

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Karel Capek

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• You cannot do only one thing.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • You
  • Only
  • One Thing

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Think
  • Hair
  • Yellow

• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Husband

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Rest
  • Lonely
  • Broke

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Islamic
  • Terrorist
  • Barack

• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  

  C. F. W. Walther
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • High
  • English

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Shoes

• I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Moment
  • Difficult

• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Machine