Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

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• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Mind
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Kiss
  • London

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Own
  • Ever
  • My Own

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • Color

• To love another person is to see the face of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Love
  • Person

• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Islamic

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Black
  • Doubt

• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Money
  • Purpose

• I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People
  • College

• The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Theatre

• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • May
  • Chicken
  • Turkey

• If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Exist
  • Creates

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Silent