Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Miguel de Unamuno

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I love to watch old movies when I get time off.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movies

• The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Best
  • Being The Best

• I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

  

  Rachel True
  • I Can
  • Lead
  • Project

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
  • Place

• If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Why

• When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Past
  • Military

• Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • People
  • Teacher

• A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • American
  • War
  • Military

• When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up

• I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Daughter

• If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Book

• It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Support

• In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Opportunity
  • Choices
  • Child

• I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

  

  George Carlin
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Lost

• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Suffering
  • Personality
  • Persons