Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Democracy
  • Enthusiasm

• I'm curvy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Curvy

• I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Generation
  • Younger
  • Though

• I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Money
  • Learn
  • Cook

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Two

• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Great
  • Career
  • Best

• Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
  • Society
  • Political

• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Freedom
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Universe

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Always
  • Material
  • Abundance

• Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Chinese

• We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort. We reject fatalism or cynicism when it comes to human affairs. We choose to work for the world as it should be, as our children deserve it to be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• My private life is quiet.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life

• Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

  

  E. B. White
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Pride

• Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Revenge

• Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Present
  • Justice
  • Jesus

• I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

  

  Chuck Hagel
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Faith
  • Technology

• One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

  

  Bailey Whitfield Diffie
  • Characterizes
  • Self-importance
  • Intellectual Work

• 'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut