Henrik Ibsen Quotes

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

Henrik Ibsen

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• We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Actions

• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • School
  • Serious
  • Place

• I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Value
  • Discipline

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Home
  • Road
  • Win

• How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • You
  • Lost
  • Everything

• Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Law
  • Better
  • Realize

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Church
  • Water
  • Deep

• I know it's illegal trespassing, but I don't think it's wrong.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• I've always lived in the moment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis

• She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

  

  Adrian Mitchell

• I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Game
  • Lies

• When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stock

• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

  

  Edward Young
  • Today
  • Wise

• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Live
  • Food

• It's become such a cultural norm that people brag about it: "Oh yeah, you did that? I did this." Keeping up with the Joneses used to be about "I have the bigger house and car," and now it's much more about how much stuff you can cram into your calendar.

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • People
  • Calendar
  • Cram

• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heart
  • May
  • Passion

• My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They're thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, 'We're 20 pages in, something better blow up,' we're in trouble.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• We’ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater appreciation among the broad society of the marital institution? Is there any evidence that the re-institutionalization of marriage is happening as a result of opposing gay marriage? And the best answer I can give to that is 'no.'

  

  David Blankenhorn
  • Giving
  • Fighting
  • Marriage

• The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Blow
  • Destroy
  • Task