Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Feeling

• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Society
  • Actors
  • Secret

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Failure
  • Service

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

  

  Lenny Bruce

• I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.

  

  Billy Beane
  • She
  • Dream

• Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

  

  Emma Roberts

• For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Vacation

• Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

  

  Amy Chua
  • People
  • Great
  • Parents

• There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Why
  • Game
  • Reality

• For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Character
  • Mindset

• I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Reality
  • Ego

• I no more wrote than read that book which is The self I am, half hidden as it is From one and all who see within a kiss The lounging formless blackness of an abyss. How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Kiss

• There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.

  

  Ben Bradlee
  • Remember

• Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Reality
  • Intelligence
  • Transforms