Eric Hoffer Quotes

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Eric Hoffer

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• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Work
  • Different
  • Game

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Conditions
  • Hold

• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Past
  • Prison
  • Embrace

• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Eye
  • Look

• Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Say
  • Lose

• The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • View
  • Mountains
  • Rocky

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Night
  • Me
  • Pleasure

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Feeling
  • Idea
  • Birth

• I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Very
  • Bed
  • Early

• Human trafficking is not a business model, it is a crime, and we are going to stop it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • Stop
  • Model

• To hear, one must be silent.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

  

  Iain Banks

• My rubber burnin, turnin corners beatin like a CongoYou try to jack and pull the strap, it's ASAP prontoThe King of the South, every hood's head honchoI'm West Side certified, go where the fuck I wanna go.

  

  T.I.
  • King
  • Hood

• Time flies when you are anxious!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Time

• How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

  

  Alan Keyes

• Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Free

• AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • America
  • Dying

• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Song
  • Guitar
  • Jeans

• We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • Money
  • King

• To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

  

  Eric Hoffer