Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Control

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Time
  • Politicians
  • Promises

• I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Food

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sun

• The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Said
  • Thing
  • Explanation

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Vulgar

• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • World
  • American
  • Connection

• Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Pleasure
  • Possibility
  • Fragrant