Jostein Gaarder Quotes

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

Jostein Gaarder

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• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Home
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Problem
  • Champagne
  • Both

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Independent

• The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Forever
  • Sacrifice
  • Choice

• To grow, people need to be challenged.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Need
  • Grow

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Deputy
  • Agitators

• 'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Church

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Proud
  • Tolerance

• 'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Heart

• When you come to a place like Old Trafford, you have to defend, and the system is in place for perfectly good reasons.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Good

• Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

  

  Donald Stewart Cherry
  • Fighting

• I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • Hand

• "I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Music
  • Fire
  • Haunted Man

• Brooklyn praise is half slander.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Praise
  • Slander

• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Popular

• Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Good
  • Family
  • She

• Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

  

  Charles Reade
  • Friend
  • Courage
  • Devil

• But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Friend
  • Understanding
  • Cost