Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

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• I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Remember

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Different
  • Man
  • Kiss

• The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • Me
  • Stand

• History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Men
  • History

• Certainly it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it before we are able.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Able
  • Pay
  • Sum

• When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Time

• Mr. Lemon-Man has inspired millions across the world through his gift. I don't refer only to basketball, but also to his magnificent gift of caring, sharing, and loving all people. I only hope my kids would possess an ounce of the Lemon-Man's heart, which easily radiates through that smile.

  

  A. C. Green Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Years

• If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

  

  Odetta Holmes
  • Singing

• If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Wise
  • Successful
  • Forget

• Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Believe
  • Marriage

• If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Man
  • Powerful

• Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Help

• Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Party
  • Technology
  • Water

• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Art
  • Film
  • Theatre

• I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Common
  • Notice
  • Cartoons

• There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Common
  • Havens