Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

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• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Different
  • Long
  • Man

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Me
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• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
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• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • America
  • Growing
  • China

• The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

  

  Umar
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Easier

• There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Women

• Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Work
  • True

• All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

  

  Tablo
  • Beginning

• I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

  

  Zanele Muholi
  • Mean
  • Waiting
  • Existence

• Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Beauty
  • Greek
  • Deities

• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  

  George Will
  • Long
  • Ability
  • Term

• When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Common

• When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Common
  • Despair