Javier Solana Quotes

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Moment

• Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Creative
  • Pregnancy

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
  • Something

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Change
  • Risk
  • Climate Change

• I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Past
  • Like
  • Gay

• The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Past
  • Regret
  • Denial

• If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

  

  Confucius
  • Friend
  • Mistake
  • Foundation

• Quite apart from the fact that it conflicts with the demands and the content of the word of God, nihilism is a denial of the humanity and of the very identity of the human being. It should never be forgotten that the neglect of being inevitably leads to losing touch with objective truth and therefore with the very ground of human dignity.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • God
  • Truth
  • Humanity

• Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

  

  William P. Perry
  • Lonely
  • Performances
  • Occupation

• When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • True
  • Cost
  • Consume

• We've recognized that this is a mistake, and this is a mistake we regret.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Mistake
  • Regret
  • Recognized