Georg Brandes Quotes
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.Georg Brandes
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater -
We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
Irvin D. Yalom -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. Wilson -
That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
Yvonne Strahovski
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Rafik Hariri -
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Federico Fellini -
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller -
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman -
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
Nate Silver -
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
Wendell Berry
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
Zac Goldsmith -
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
Hamid Karzai -
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Ted Turner -
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda -
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch
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When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
Jim Crace -
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries -
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field -
You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.
Jonathan Mostow -
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes