Nelson Algren Quotes

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Nelson Algren

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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Long
  • Live
  • Happily

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Feels
  • Upgrade
  • Antiquated

• I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • American
  • War
  • Fool

• Nvidia, fuck you!

  

  Linus Torvalds

• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Real
  • True
  • Relationship

• For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Live
  • Dream

• This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.

  

  Jim Talent

• I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Pretty
  • Black

• As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

  

  Connie Mack IV
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Son

• What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.

  

  DeForest Kelley
  • Time
  • Done
  • Friends

• Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

  

  Bill James
  • People
  • Rest
  • Evil

• I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

  

  Jose Saramago

• The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Done
  • Agreement
  • Korea

• All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.

  

  Laura Riding
  • May
  • Literature

• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Heart
  • Knows
  • Reasons

• For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Heart
  • Cities
  • Labor