Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Kind
  • Opinions

• We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opportunities

• Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Important
  • Health
  • Quality

• Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Win

• After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Competition
  • Retiring
  • After

• When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Memories

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• Aimer, c'est agir

  

  Victor Hugo

• Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Taken

• I gave a reply: that my election speeches are available with the election commission. My statements are available in the newspapers. If you will find out a single statement that you can brand as communal, I will declare myself defeated. No one dared to come forward.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Single

• it has now become obvious that most of the state institutions, including the judiciary, the army, the security apparatus and most of the government departments, stood against him Morsi. They acted in a co-ordinated manner to foment a crisis aimed at impeding the president and forcing failure on him.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Failure
  • Army

• From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Good
  • Together
  • Fun

• Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Truth
  • Nature

• The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.

  

  Ndabaningi Sithole
  • Government
  • Right
  • Property

• If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

  

  William Shatner
  • Book
  • Tomorrow
  • Quests

• Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg