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

• When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Trying
  • Church

• Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Desire
  • Wealth
  • Kingdom

• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Important
  • Influence
  • China

• Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth Is
  • Fails
  • Kingdom Of God

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

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Desire
  • Frantic