Johan Huizinga Quotes

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

  

  Barry Took
  • Think
  • Better
  • Course

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Ifs
  • Talk

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Achieve

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• I try to lead by example.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Try
  • Lead
  • Lead By Example

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Real
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • College
  • Mom

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Defense

• The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • World
  • Simple

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

  

  Jase Robertson
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

  

  Embeth Davidtz
  • People
  • Risk

• There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Money
  • War
  • Poverty

• You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

  

  Johan Huizinga
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live