Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henrik Ibsen

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• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Gay

• As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time

• That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

  

  Clotilde Hesme
  • Work
  • Why
  • Theatre

• It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Band

• We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

  

  bell hooks
  • Beautiful
  • Space
  • Color

• It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

  

  Conrad Hall

• I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

  

  George J. Mitchell
  • Job
  • Law
  • Couple

• It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Inspired
  • Bible
  • Holy Spirit

• I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Improvement
  • Quaterback

• Some enemies you must conquer, while the others you just need to outlive them

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Enemies
  • Conquer
  • Outlive

• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Government
  • End
  • Principles

• We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Mother
  • Crazy
  • Enough

• Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Happiness
  • Calm
  • Innocence