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

• If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

  

  John Aniston
  • Technology
  • Clicks

• 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

• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Work
  • God
  • Blessing

• My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Hot

• There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.

  

  Barry Long
  • Existence
  • Mystery
  • Illusion

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

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Enjoyment