Georg Simmel Quotes
Objectivity does not simply involve passivity and detachment; it is a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement.Georg Simmel
Quotes to Explore
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
Dan Fogelman -
Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
Karan Johar -
The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
Tammy Duckworth -
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Olivia Wilde -
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
Jack L. Chalker
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
G-Eazy -
'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
Rachel Sklar -
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
Patrick deWitt -
In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
Ze Frank -
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 -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons -
I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
Rachel Bloom -
Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
Zooey Deschanel -
Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
Adam Driver -
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
Edmund White
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I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
Will Smith -
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
Ian Caldwell -
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
Nicolas Ghesquiere -
Objectivity does not simply involve passivity and detachment; it is a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement.
Georg Simmel