Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• Harmony

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• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Easy

• This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • God
  • You
  • Government

• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. - The judge

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • May
  • Soul

• There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.

  

  James Mattis
  • Retirement

• I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

  

  Kevin Brockmeier
  • Gratitude

• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • English
  • Literature
  • Stories

• At night the sea is very loud,And voices ride the tide.At another time, in another place,Beneath the silent moon,We laughed together.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Night

• It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. Imperfect as it may be, there is no doubt that this can best be done through the United Nations, not merely to preserve peace but also to make change, even radical change, without violence.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Peace
  • Challenges
  • Harmony

• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Relationships
  • Adversity
  • Harmony