Milan Kundera Quotes

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

Milan Kundera

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Friendship

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Important
  • Long
  • Pretty

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Society
  • Man

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Real
  • Sex
  • Story

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Books
  • Writer
  • Favourite

• I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Believe
  • Understand

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • History
  • Knowing
  • Scared

• By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Why
  • Fear

• One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Why
  • Weird
  • Survival

• If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Good
  • Focus

• There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Cutting
  • Throat

• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I've always wanted to become the President of Haiti but I realized Haiti doesn't need Presidents and Prime Ministers anymore. Meanwhile, I think Haiti needs a King and a Kingdom to secure its border and to apply proper security to protect its Citizens from the madness that's coming in the world in the upcoming years

  

  Werley Nortreus
  • Haiti
  • Kings
  • Future

• We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Future
  • Focus
  • inspirational