Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Joseph Brodsky

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• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• I cannot abide being bored.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Being
  • Bored
  • Cannot

• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • School
  • Night

• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Free

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Blood

• I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • She
  • Girl
  • Problem

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Country
  • Done
  • Journalism

• You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Light

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind

• I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... but I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high-it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Why
  • High
  • Die

• …inversion…is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.

  

  Lorelei Linklater
  • Pretty

• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Faith

• I don't know; I guess they'll never make another 'Nemo.' I see they're making another 'Monsters, Inc.' I had a wonderful idea for them. I swear to God, I think there could be a great sequel to 'Nemo' where the fish never will leave home. He just won't leave. 'Getting Rid of Nemo.' Right, 'You're 30 years old! Get out of here!'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • God
  • Home

• Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Education
  • Responsibility
  • Rewards

• Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Together
  • Learning
  • Theatre

• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • English
  • Bible
  • Christianity

• If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Good
  • Believe
  • American

• Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

  

  Bai Ling
  • World
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

  

  Joseph Brodsky