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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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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 -
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
Heraclitus -
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
Michael Caine
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
Eliphas Levi -
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