Jens Lekman Quotes

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

Jens Lekman

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Integrity

• 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Island

• Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Success
  • Inspired

• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Heroine
  • Patti Smith

• I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Me
  • Film
  • Choose

• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Done
  • Game
  • Fear

• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Imagine

• All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Beautiful
  • Find
  • Darkness

• It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Old
  • Battle
  • Between

• And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Eyes
  • Wall

• Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Lesbian
  • Sisterhood

• Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Dad

• Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • God
  • Light

• Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Design

• I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • People
  • Quality
  • Period

• It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • People
  • Action
  • Never

• I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts ...

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Purpose

• If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

  

  Jens Lekman