Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Tell
  • Please

• I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • World
  • Love
  • Me

• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choices
  • Made
  • Sum

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Blue
  • Mercy

• I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Up
  • World
  • Stress

• I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • King

• Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • School
  • Girl
  • Hockey

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• Converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • God
  • Values
  • Americans

• I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Doing

• God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Creates
  • Reduces