Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
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• I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

  

  Kat Graham
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• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Myself

• Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Engineering
  • Nouveau

• I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Body

• I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Energy
  • Support
  • Wind

• It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • New
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  • Mining

• I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happen

• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Live
  • Remember

• I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • City
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• Then speaking of his loosely figurative work of the 1930's, in Germany I was still under nature, not that I was imitating it; now 1957 I am above nature. But everything comes from nature, I too am part of nature; my memory comes from nature, too.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
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• And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Small

• One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away.'

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Wise

• … and the wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones … But those were Foreign Children and it really didn’t matter …

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Up
  • Children
  • Wolf

• I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Potential
  • Live Up

• Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Women
  • Mystery
  • Don't Know

• If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Day

• We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost.

  

  Chin Han
  • Time
  • Great
  • Live

• Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg