Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.Jostein Gaarder
Quotes to Explore
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Ovid -
Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
Mary Violet Heberden -
I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."
Barack Obama -
One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.
Zachary Schomburg
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix Rohatyn -
Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.
Nicolas Godin Air -
If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation!
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.
Alan Curbishley -
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
William Shakespeare
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Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.
Basilea Schlink -
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
Jostein Gaarder