Hannah Arendt Quotes

Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Interested

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Past
  • Present

• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Career
  • Strength
  • Everest

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Now

• The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Short

• I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Small
  • Born
  • Small Town

• I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Gold

• Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

  

  Charles Reade
  • Friend
  • Courage
  • Devil

• Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Opinion
  • Effects
  • Mistress

• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Prayer
  • Spirit

• But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

  

  William Pfaff
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Speaking
  • Urge