Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

I felt I was owned by possessions.

Nicolas Berggruen

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• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• I've felt ugly and insecure.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Ugly
  • Felt
  • Insecure

• I always felt an outsider.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Always
  • Felt
  • Outsider

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Felt

• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Stage
  • Fine
  • Possession

• I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

  

  Geoffrey Holder
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Knows

• Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Power
  • Excellence
  • Possession

• There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Tell
  • Felt
  • Tragic

• State law specifically prohibits possession of stun guns and related weapons, ... This agreement will help ensure that the Internet is not used to facilitate illegal activity.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Help
  • Law
  • Weapons

• Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Possession

• My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Felt

• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Long
  • Children
  • Interested

• I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • America
  • Fear

• The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Power
  • Society
  • Easy

• There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Air

• Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Niels Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Opinions

• I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Testicles

• The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Spring
  • Best Way
  • Barks

• The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Possible
  • Consists
  • Real Art

• I felt I was owned by possessions.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Felt
  • Possession