Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

Nicolas Berggruen

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• The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Destiny
  • Interests
  • Significance

• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Lost
  • Space
  • Cutting

• The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bible
  • Selfish
  • Desperately

• A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Opinion

• The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Government
  • Firsts
  • Embarrassing

• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Command
  • Troops
  • God's Help

• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Forget
  • Danger
  • Cheers

• I'm most comfortable on stage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stage
  • Comfortable

• I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Enjoyment
  • Activities
  • Lifeless

• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Escape
  • Enjoyment
  • Preach

• The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Knowledge
  • Value
  • Grace

• Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Victim
  • Limitation

• I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Enjoyment