Hannah Arendt Quotes

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

Hannah Arendt

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • War
  • Easy

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Name

• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Idol

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Language

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • World
  • America
  • Rules

• All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Old

• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

  

  Princess Diana
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • True
  • Fight
  • Losing

• The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • People
  • Habit

• I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Reading
  • Desire
  • Study

• Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • Inherent