Georg Simmel Quotes

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Georg Simmel

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Work
  • Together

• Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Presence

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Stage
  • Big
  • Tight

• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • New
  • November
  • Colors

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Me

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Father
  • Fan
  • Journalist

• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Done
  • Own
  • Funeral

• The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fun

• There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Parents
  • Fall

• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Character

• The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Different
  • Country
  • Culture

• We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Victory

• Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

  

  Kenzo Tange

• Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Night
  • Cheer
  • Christmas Eve

• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Personality
  • Mysterious