Hannah Arendt Quotes

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Law

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Successful

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Real
  • History

• If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Know
  • Intelligent
  • Say

• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Value
  • Guitarist
  • Passages

• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Wisdom

• There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Bad
  • Alcohol

• I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • True
  • Crime
  • Stranger

• On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Reading
  • Best
  • Self

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Help

• I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Person
  • Company
  • Run

• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • School
  • American
  • History

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Great
  • Rather
  • Renaissance

• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Food
  • Planning

• We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Always
  • Luck

• Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Laws
  • Faculty
  • Applying

• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Always
  • Everyday
  • Miracle