Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

Jostein Gaarder

• Lose
• Life is
• Wander
• Brief

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Door
  • Understand
  • Now

• I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Never
  • Movement
  • Fast

• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Other
  • Involvement

• My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Beginning

• If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Mistakes

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Song
  • Change
  • Focus

• My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Father
  • Football
  • Loved

• Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Good
  • Bad

• Does what you think of you determine your worth?

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Doe
  • Determine

• We think it necessary that an active and meaningful dialogue on this topic be resumed with the new U.S. administration as soon as possible

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Think
  • Meaningful
  • Possible

• I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

  

  Mike Trout
  • Baseball
  • Moved

• Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Names
  • Attachment

• It makes me feel better about missing a game. I hate to miss, but if we lose, I'll feel even worse about the job I'm doing.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Game
  • Feel
  • Missing

• Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

  

  David Sklansky
  • Winning
  • Lose
  • Worst

• Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Lose
  • Life is
  • Wander