Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Justice
  • New
  • Environmental

• To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Home
  • True

• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Words
  • Control

• 'You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Heart
  • Prayer

• It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Experience

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Death

• As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sleep

• As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Simple

• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Truth
  • Oil
  • Falsehood

• I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Picture
  • Literature
  • Write

• I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

  

  Joan Didion

• It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Destiny
  • Authority