Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Like

• In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Remember

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Women
  • France

• I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • Him

• You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Different
  • Long
  • Day

• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Space
  • Idea

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Rest
  • Frustration

• Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Person

• I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Crying
  • London
  • Through

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Time
  • Science
  • Trust

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • May
  • Forest

• Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Worldview
  • Filers
  • Pilers

• Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Said

• I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Influence
  • Wanted
  • Beyond

• The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Said
  • Protest
  • Pessimism