Petra Kelly Quotes

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Petra Kelly

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• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Faith

• You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Time
  • You

• The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Imagination

• Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.

  

  Aeschylus

• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Important

• I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

  

  Marion Cotillard

• I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

  

  Jessica Biel
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Pressure

• If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

  

  James Monroe
  • People
  • History
  • Happy

• It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Real
  • Change
  • Action

• I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Doing

• I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

  

  Kenny Chesney

• Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Action
  • Behavior
  • Nonviolent