Isaiah Berlin Quotes

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Isaiah Berlin

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• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • You
  • Childhood

• I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • College
  • Myself
  • Medical

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Business
  • Want
  • Soldier

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Book
  • Organization

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Life
  • Men
  • Only

• I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Business
  • Bitter
  • Jealous

• There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • God
  • Child
  • Find

• I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Man

• I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Think
  • Game

• It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I was very pleased with both starting groups there, ... It's still preseason, but we needed a good lift.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Team
  • Improvement

• It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Heaven
  • Childhood
  • Spring

• The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Choice

• Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • God

• We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

  

  Isaiah Berlin
  • Choose
  • Loss
  • Entail