Frederick the Great Quotes
If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
Quotes to Explore
-
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
-
There's a lot more to me than just power.
-
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
-
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
-
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
-
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
-
I am a citizen of the world.
-
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
-
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
-
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
-
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
-
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
-
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
-
Stay calm and aggressive.
-
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
-
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
-
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
-
Every human being makes mistakes.
-
Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
-
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
-
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
-
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
-
If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
