Michael Gurian Quotes

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Michael Gurian

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Hard
  • Weg

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  

  Karen Morley
  • King
  • Popular
  • Daily

• It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • True
  • Nice
  • Conversation

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Sex
  • Write
  • Read

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Long
  • Way
  • Annoying

• I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Acting
  • Young
  • Student

• The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Three

• Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Help

• Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hate

• My heart is warm with friends I make,  And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,  No matter where it's going.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Heart
  • Friends

• Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Baby
  • Model
  • Feminist

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Value
  • Human Life
  • Tragedies