Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
-
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
-
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
-
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
-
I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
-
I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
-
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
-
Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
-
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
-
I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
-
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
-
All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
-
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
-
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
-
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
-
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
-
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
-
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
-
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
-
It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
-
The old man murmured: 'Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.'
-
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
