Otto von Bismarck Quotes

Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.

Otto von Bismarck

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• Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • True
  • Brave
  • Self

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • Law
  • Best

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Unique

• I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Giving
  • Wall
  • Voice

• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Work
  • Director

• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Unknown
  • Fame

• One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World

• Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Failure

• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Actions
  • Passions

• And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Road

• What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Up
  • Health
  • Innovation

• Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

  

  Marty Meehan

• I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!

  

  Amber Heard
  • Beautiful
  • Control
  • Mistake

• We would not have invaded a country that did not attack us. We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families. We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.

  

  Otto von Bismarck