Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik Ibsen
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
Umberto Eco
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
Quentin Crisp
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I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
Cory Booker
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
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There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.
George Clooney
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I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.
Faith Erin Hicks
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Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
William Shakespeare
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
George Bernard Shaw
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How unfortunate, how extremely unfortunate, the determination that seized people to get hold of and engulf other people. If only they could be induced to stand more on their own feet. Why couldn't Mr. Briggs be more like Lotty, who never wanted anything of anybody, but was complete in herself and respected other people's completeness? One loved being with Lotty. With her one was free, and yet befriended. Mr. Briggs looked so really nice, too. She thought she might like him if only he wouldn't so excessively like her.
Elizabeth von Arnim
