Fred Kavli Quotes

I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

Fred Kavli

• Humanity
• Foundation
• Benefit
• Planned
• Fulfilling

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Proud
  • Equality

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • English
  • Person

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Against
  • France
  • Attack

• We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Eye
  • Moon
  • Animals

• My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Perfect
  • Progress
  • Canvas

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

  

  Luke Donald
  • Good
  • Work
  • Game

• I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • People
  • Mind
  • Charity

• I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • Strong
  • Environment
  • Sacrifice

• Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Up
  • Different
  • Parents

• It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

  

  E. B. White
  • God
  • Morning
  • Road

• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Book
  • Scripture

• I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Art
  • Government
  • Rationally

• I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

  

  Fred Kavli
  • Humanity
  • Foundation
  • Benefit