Henrik Ibsen Quotes

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Henrik Ibsen

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • Country
  • Remember

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Reward
  • Diet

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Enjoy

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Personally

• This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Way
  • Interesting

• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Sometimes
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• You have to respect your opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Respect
  • Opponent

• Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Freedom
  • Language
  • Countries

• But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Never

• I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Desire

• I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Child

• What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?

  

  Aeschylus

• My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

  

  Gene Oliver
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• (Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.

  

  George Will
  • People
  • Book
  • Baseball

• I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

  

  Fred Tomaselli
  • Generosity

• I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Mother
  • Beliefs
  • Ghosts