Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Same
  • Said

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Done
  • White
  • Election

• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Giving
  • Yourself
  • Loss

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Play

• I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Wife

• The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Gay

• After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Book

• Die Pflicht der Kantianer verhält sich zu dem Gebot der Ehre, der Stimme des Berufs und der Gottheit in uns, wie die getrocknete Pflanze zur frischen Blume am lebenden Stamme.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Service

• My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

  

  Alfred Jodl
  • People
  • Future
  • Confidence

• My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm with you. I'm with everybody. I'm with everybody, look, I'm self-funding. I have no oil company. I have no special interest. I have no lobbyists.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Interest
  • Company
  • Special

• Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Dream
  • Cutting
  • Psychics

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Friendship
  • Generosity
  • Males

• Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Friendship