Jostein Gaarder Quotes
But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.Jostein Gaarder
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking -
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
Patrick Dempsey -
You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
Gary Paulsen
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
J. G. Ballard -
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
Dan Gable -
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
Ferdowsi -
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln -
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
Parker Palmer -
We want to let our play be the judges.
Dan Quinn
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Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
Danica McKellar -
Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
Barack Obama -
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
Larry Wall -
Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
Conor McGregor -
In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me. It's important to go seek help when you need it, and to give help when other people need it. And that is really more important than coming in with a gigantic brain into the astronaut program.
Michael J. Massimino -
I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
R. Kelly -
We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.
Chris Avellone -
But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.
Jostein Gaarder