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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• Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• 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

• When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • May
  • Road

• 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

• There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Reason

• 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

• 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

• Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Home
  • Giving

• Human beings have always been mythmakers.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Always
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

  

  Charles Gounod
  • Ideas
  • Musical
  • Catch

• It's so funny when I do TV shows and they're like, "Yeah, you gotta keep it clean, man." I'm like, "How the fuck do I keep it clean? My shit is called 'Fuck It.' Get the fuck out of here. Don't put me on the show if you want me to keep it clean."

  

  Eamon Doyle
  • Clean
  • TV Shows

• (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