Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Vida Blue
I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
Barkhad Abdi
We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
Carlos Alazraqui
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Samuel Beckett
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
Anthony Trollope
I have been willing, in the case of civil statutes, to acknowledge a doctrine of scrivener's error that permits a court to give an unusual (though not unheard of) meaning to a word which, if given its normal meaning, would produce an absurd and arguably unconstitutional result.
Antonin Scalia
While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
Lee Smolin
Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
Alfred Noyes
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
Keegan-Michael Key
Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.
Chaka Fattah
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens
I'm a massive 'Seinfeld' freak, and growing up, I always wanted to be Elaine - but I think everybody has a little bit of George in them, even if nobody wants to admit it.
Margo Price
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
Jami Attenberg
I think what we find, especially with the kids that grew up with 'Clone Wars,' when they're of the age where they're like, 'I want to revisit that stuff,' who knows what format they're going to watch it on.
Dave Filoni
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
