Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

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• I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

  

  David Hunt
  • Long
  • Done

• Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • People
  • Political
  • Words

• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  

  Moliere
  • Passion
  • Deserve
  • Tobacco

• I prefer rock music—my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet—but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called “Sick of Myself,” and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist’s waiting room.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Wrong
  • Prefer
  • Therapist

• Spiritual Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Growth
  • Development
  • Disciples

• The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

  

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer
  • Behinds
  • Keys
  • Refuse

• You can’t leave me here to hope, when in reality you’ve already decided everything.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Hope
  • Reality

• Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Looks
  • Pigs
  • Juliet

• Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Tired
  • Dead

• The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Rid

• I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Always
  • Rid
  • Reporters

• No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Important
  • Love
  • Explain

• First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Prisons
  • Rid
  • Suggest

• The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Die
  • Waiting
  • Prosperity

• For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Building
  • Trick
  • Seeking

• And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Friend
  • Laugh
  • Sorrow

• The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • I Know
  • Trick
  • Same Time

• The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Trick
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