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 like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Beginning

• 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

• Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Love
  • Movie
  • High

• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Action
  • Challenge
  • Athlete

• Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Behavior
  • Weakness

• Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Love
  • Girl

• 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