Georg Brandes Quotes
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Quotes to Explore
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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When you become comfortable in your own skin, it actually makes you appear more attractive because you're just confident in who you are.
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
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I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
