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

• Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Eternity
  • Empire
  • Colony Of Time

• 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 crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.

  

  William Cowper
  • Home
  • Winter
  • Enjoyment

• The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Blame
  • Praise

• It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Speak
  • Judgment
  • Scene

• True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

  

  William Taylor
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Repentance

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

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Enjoyment