Milan Kundera Quotes

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

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• There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Happy
  • City

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Works

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Space
  • Policy
  • Much

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Bad
  • Film
  • Movies

• You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Present

• My body and my will are one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Different
  • History
  • Taken

• One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Great
  • Thinking

• A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • World

• Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have sparked a booming industry of so-called influencers - people with large-scale followings who are paid considerable sums by large companies to tout their products or ideas.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • People

• This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

  

  Jean Froissart
  • Home
  • Law

• The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

  

  Johannes Kepler

• I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

  

  Ma Long
  • Pressure
  • Burden
  • Throw

• And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Dog

• There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

  

  Christine Sneed
  • Desire
  • Ways
  • Restraint

• [W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Memories
  • Burden
  • Collapse