Walter Benjamin Quotes

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

Walter Benjamin

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• I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

  

  Dan Colen
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  • Try
  • Handle

• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Fat

• My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • American
  • Change
  • Brother

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Been
  • Victim
  • Heartless

• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Generation
  • Passionate
  • Empowering

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Simple
  • Couple
  • Risk

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Children
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Up
  • Good
  • Political

• The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Real
  • May

• As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

  

  Andrew Weil

• Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Great
  • Different
  • Experience

• There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Deep

• The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Heart
  • May