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

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• 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

• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Age
  • Religious

• Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Holiness

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• One of the most marked features about the law of mind is that it makes time to have a definite direction of flow from past to future. ...This makes one of the great contrasts between the law of mind and the law of physical force, where there is no more distinction between the two opposite directions in time than between moving northward and moving southward.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mind

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

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Desire
  • Frantic