Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

Soren Kierkegaard

• Risk
• Danger
• Presumption
• Trivialities

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

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• I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

  

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• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

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• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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• In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

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• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
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• I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
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• I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

  

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• Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

  

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• 'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'

  

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• People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'

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• The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

  

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• During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Risk
  • Danger
  • Presumption