Yanis Varoufakis Quotes

Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

Yanis Varoufakis

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• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Together
  • Movie

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• I try to keep a low profile.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Try
  • Low
  • Profile

• I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Funny
  • Try
  • Pause

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Model
  • Doing
  • Year

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Environment

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Complete
  • Outfit

• Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?

  

  Jack Benny
  • Star
  • Christmas

• So what happens when the regime falls, as it must? We are in the first stage of change in our country, and the feeling among the revolutionaries is that the people of Yemen will find solutions for our problems once the regime has gone, because the regime itself is the cause of most of them. A new Yemen awaits us, with a better future for all.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Great

• A light broke in upon my brain, -It was the carol of a bird;It ceased, and then it came again,The sweetest song ear ever heard.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Song
  • Light
  • Brain

• Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Music
  • Art
  • Business

• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Earth

• When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Long
  • Heart
  • May

• The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

  

  Meryl Streep
  • Human
  • inspirational
  • Compassion

• I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy

• We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Space
  • Option
  • Gonna

• Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis