Eugene Ionesco Quotes
The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.Eugene Ionesco
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung -
My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
Damian Woetzel -
I love design.
Venus Williams -
I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
Dakota Fanning -
God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.
Patrick Lencioni -
To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
Lodewijk Fluttert
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My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.
Vaclav Havel -
The people of these states were victimized twice. First they were victimized by the hurricane. Second they were victimized by the ineptness of the government response.
Barbara Mikulski -
It's going to be hard. But I think that when we are in tough environments, it helps us focus more and it helps us concentrate. We're looking forward to it. We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever.
Allen Iverson -
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?
Lucille Clifton -
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
Rob Zombie
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Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster -
Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
Madeleine de Souvre -
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
J. G. Holland -
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Henry Ward Beecher -
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Seneca the Younger -
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.
William James
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal -
The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.
Eugene Ionesco