Max Frisch Quotes

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

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• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Kids
  • Advice
  • Accept

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • You
  • Challenges
  • Obstacles

• With an apple I will astonish Paris.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Paris

• When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

  

  Loni Love
  • Up

• I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

  

  Jason Henderson
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Movie

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Believe
  • Fate