Eyvind Johnson Quotes

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

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• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Organization

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Unseen

• I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Book
  • Career
  • Health

• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Never

• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Process

• I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Important
  • Money
  • Think

• Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • She
  • Together

• What is worse, when I got the matter enquired into by the local police, we found out that it was a small, insignificant structure under a tree which had been damaged a little bit by some crazy individual. But NDTV presented it as an attack on a Hanuman mandir. When the fires were raging these journalists were pouring fuel on those fires.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Small
  • Crazy
  • Tree

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Long
  • Parents

• When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Air

• Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

  

  Matt Damon
  • Interesting

• Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Flying

• It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, of what goes on in the universe.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Knowledge
  • Worked
  • Actually

• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Positive

• l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Artist
  • Suffering
  • Painting

• I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Faith

• In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Suffering
  • Mankind
  • Soul And Body