Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Johann Georg Hamann

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Think
  • Community
  • Gay

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Because
  • Strategy

• My body is my greatest asset.

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Body
  • Greatest
  • Asset

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Agree
  • Often
  • Tear

• I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Know
  • Artist
  • Say

• So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • You
  • Someone
  • Go

• I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

  Ford Frick
  • You
  • Others
  • Deaf

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Well
  • Fraud
  • Negligence

• Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Control

• On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Person

• As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

  

  Brian Helgeland
  • Period

• You wake up one day and realize, 'Now, I'm a veteran.' You just wake up one day, and you're like, 'I'm 35, and I've been doing this now for 13 years.'

  

  Nicholas D'Agosto
  • Years
  • Doing
  • Realize

• Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson

• Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann