Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

Ismail Kadare

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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Chance
  • Commitment
  • Will

• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Political

• Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Face
  • Deal
  • Many

• We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Know
  • Attention

• The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • End
  • Confused

• When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • You
  • Powerful

• Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Boy

• So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Thinking

• My body and my will are one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

  

  David Garrick
  • Imagination

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

  

  Ismail Kadare
  • House
  • Move
  • Empire