Georg Brandes Quotes

It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.

Georg Brandes

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• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • Pressure
  • Key

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Respect
  • Alone
  • Singing

• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Age
  • Change
  • Retirement

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak

• There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Eye
  • Nothing

• All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Overcome

• Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Development
  • Oil

• My personal life is also cinema.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Personal
  • Cinema

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Happy

• You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights. You don’t have discriminatory laws against them, I mean not letting them swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think it's unfair to call Israel an apartheid state. If Kerry did so, I think he made a mistake.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Political
  • Mistake

• What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Connection

• We want to open spaces for young people to thrive in this economy, and that is why we said... when government buys commodities and services, we must have some set aside for young people.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Why

• Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • People
  • Up

• I definitely stayed away from Twitter. I didn't want to be geotagged or anything.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Twitter
  • Stay Away
  • Geotagged

• Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Life
  • Live

• The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

  

  Francis Chan
  • World
  • Heart
  • Crosses

• I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Women
  • Summer
  • Competition

• I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

  

  Wilford Brimley
  • New York
  • Businesses
  • Cherish

• It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.

  

  Georg Brandes