Milan Kundera Quotes

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

Milan Kundera

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• Changing
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• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Said
  • Piano

• Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Gender

• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Giving
  • Reading

• Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Believe
  • Car

• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Long
  • Sun
  • Snow

• Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • May
  • War
  • Hope

• We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Democracy

• I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Singing
  • Tea

• I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Universe
  • Picture

• We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Men

• Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

  

  Dario Fo
  • People

• ' for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

  

  David Ricardo

• Over the years, we have financed projects in core industrial sectors like steel, cement, aluminium and petrochemicals, and in manufacturing sectors like automobiles and textiles.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Training
  • Needs
  • Lunatic

• When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Thinking
  • Success

• I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Thinking

• I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Thinking
  • Freedom
  • Changing