Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Today
  • Government
  • Challenge

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Right
  • Him
  • Bully

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Desire
  • Language

• In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Best
  • Three

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Men
  • May
  • Political

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I cannot abide being bored.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Being
  • Bored
  • Cannot

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking.

  

  Daphne Merkin
  • Moving
  • Wonder
  • Perspective

• 'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Theatre

• At all levels - with men and women - the 3-point shot has utterly transformed the way the game is played. More and more, the players are spread out, looking to pop behind the 3-point arc.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Men
  • Women
  • Game

• Together with Adobe, we're committed to fostering creativity and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers so they can unlock the opportunities of today's rapidly evolving workplace.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Together
  • Today
  • Culture

• We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Today
  • Selfish
  • Balls

• A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Today