Henrik Ibsen Quotes

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Henrik Ibsen

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• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Same

• I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Going
  • Caution

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Way
  • Once
  • Dive

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Artist

• What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Good
  • Law
  • Christian

• You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Connection

• For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Guy
  • Parents

• 'I sucked a lot of liberal cocks to get where I am today.'

  

  Banksy
  • Today

• The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Hope
  • Competition

• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul

• You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.

  

  Craig Horner
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Hero

• My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People
  • Lost
  • Search

• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

  

  Solon
  • Wisdom
  • Blessings
  • Human Life

• He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Worthy
  • Flattered
  • Flatterer

• I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Truth
  • Revolution
  • Majority