Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Death
  • Singing
  • Creative

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Greatest

• I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Important
  • Know
  • Surgeon

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Power
  • Poor

• I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Remember

• It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Amazing

• Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Deep
  • Sense
  • Outsider

• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Missing
  • Three
  • Others

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Car

• He told Dorothy he had brushed his shaggy hair and whiskers; but she thought he must have brushed them the wrong way, for they were quite as shaggy as before.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Hair
  • Whiskers
  • Shaggy

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human. But, I'm man enough to face 'em today. What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb. But, the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun. Because I'd have killed them. Shit, I'd have shot Kim and them both. It's my life, I'd like to welcome you all to 'The Eminem Show'.

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Today
  • Doubt

• Put anthrax on your Tampax and slap you 'till you can't stand! Girl, you just blew your chance, don't mean to ruin your plans!

  

  Eminem
  • Girl

• We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Children
  • Water
  • Christian

• Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Different
  • Real
  • Cold

• Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Military
  • Police
  • Scheme

• Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • Great
  • Insurance
  • Pool

• Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Wine
  • Possibility