Milan Kundera Quotes

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

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• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Lies
  • Organization
  • Victory

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Privileged

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Science

• Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Stupid

• Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Stop

• You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Bad

• What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Support

• Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Good
  • American
  • Future

• It's no fun being lonely.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Fun
  • Lonely

• In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Different
  • Single
  • Vision

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

  

  Duncan Sheik

• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People

• Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Life
  • Business
  • History

• I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Desire
  • Frantic