Jostein Gaarder Quotes

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Jostein Gaarder

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• The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Country
  • Picture
  • Process

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Cry
  • Watch

• The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Night

• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Real
  • Drama
  • Epic

• There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Thought

• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Smile

• I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is very important because you need to be on your word game if you want to be a lyricist.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Important
  • School
  • Game

• If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

  

  Marie Stopes
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Worth

• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Person
  • Doing
  • Successful

• They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny

• There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Audience
  • Build
  • Size

• I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Fun
  • Night

• Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Loved
  • Divine
  • Human Beings

• Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

  

  Mordecai Brown
  • Dad
  • Baseball
  • Catch

• Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

  

  Harry Lorayne
  • Ignorance
  • Curiosity
  • Human Beings

• Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back.

  

  Nobuhiro Nishiwaki
  • Find
  • Throw
  • Get Back

• (As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Human Beings
  • Clean
  • Catch