Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

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• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
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• I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
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• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
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• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
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• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'

  

  Kate Bush
  • True
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• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Alone

• Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Sea
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• A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.

  

  Lucan

• Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellusquae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.

  

  Lucan

• I'm a brand ambassador. I've been a fan of Nip+Fab for a while, so it fit perfectly. I just love their stuff.

  

  Kylie Jenner

• I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.

  

  Maren Morris

• My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Job
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• I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Past
  • Nice

• Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

  

  Lina Wertmuller
  • Women
  • Party
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• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  

  Plato
  • People
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• As a kid, I was obsessed with Broadway cast recordings, and I would totally mimic and memorize every little choice that these actors made.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger

• Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Girl

• I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I really love jeans.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Silence
  • Remedy
  • Modern World