Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Henrik Ibsen

• Heart
• Find
• Spot

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Going

• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Three
  • Five
  • Wives

• When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Funny

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • College
  • Going
  • Doctor

• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

  Mamnoon Hussain
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Take

• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • City
  • Morning

• I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Life
  • Husband
  • Politics

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Want
  • Attention

• Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Planning

• God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • God
  • Feeling

• It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Punishment
  • Believe In God

• When they told Missis Cohen that she'd lost her man, She said 'Must you interrupt me when I'm playing 'Pan'?' Then she said to her partner, Missus R. J. Rosen, 'Cohen was a lovely husband, but he's no good frozen.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Lost
  • Husband
  • Partner

• Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Man

• What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Psychology

• Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Heart
  • Find
  • Spot