Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.Jostein Gaarder
Quotes to Explore
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
Fiona Apple -
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens -
For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
Usain Bolt -
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow -
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
Aaron Sorkin -
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei -
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott -
Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
Magic Johnson -
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
Sam Kinison -
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
George Bernard Shaw -
The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
Anthony Rapp -
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
Adele -
People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
Kevin Spacey -
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar Wilde -
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
Ben Bernanke
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Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?
Ben Maddow -
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
Isaac Watts -
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.
William Barrett -
It's a great day for Indiana. The hard work at all levels of federal, state and local government has paid off.
Dan Burton -
My goal is not to overtake Tinder or compete with Tinder. To be fully honest with you, I think Tinder is a great product. It's still my baby at the end of the day. So I wish it continued success. I still have equity in Tinder.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
Jostein Gaarder