Saul Bellow Quotes

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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• The brain abhors discrepancies.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Brain
  • Abhors

• We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • God
  • Men
  • Game

• To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Oppression

• I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Fight
  • Rights
  • Against

• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Result
  • Exist
  • Acid

• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Song
  • Meaning
  • Sing

• Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Free
  • Star
  • inspirational

• You couple a sense of entrepreneurship with an extremely intelligent, technically capable people who understand markets, and that's what you see happening in India. India has a leg up on China.

  

  Larry Burns
  • People
  • Up
  • Couple

• Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • Done
  • Rock
  • Blues

• There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Always
  • Fact
  • Case

• That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Wish

• My prayers are with my uncle. I pray that he will seek and receive the help he so desperately needs.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Help
  • Uncle
  • Prayers

• Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Free
  • Failure
  • Crimes

• I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Help
  • Players
  • Tournament

• A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

  

  Nabeshima Naoshige
  • Real
  • Death
  • Victory

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Want
  • Government
  • Quality

• Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Victory
  • Deal
  • Bear

• 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

  

  Edward Robert Harrison
  • Reality
  • Illusion
  • Atoms

• People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moving

• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Deal
  • Illusion