Hannah Szenes Quotes

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

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• That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

  

  Jared Harris
  • History
  • Period
  • Greek

• In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Culture

• I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Things
  • Ruled
  • Weariness

• Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Good

• I knew 'Almost Famous' wasn't playing in theaters at that long length. And really, it wasn't one of those terrible squabbles that you read about, where people want to change their name or anything. Our toughest discussion was, did Kate Hudson dance too long? It wasn't that big of a deal.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Long
  • Dance

• Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.

  

  William Cowper Prime
  • Fishing
  • Arrangements
  • Pay No Attention

• I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

  

  Arthur Frommer
  • Eyes
  • Paris
  • Feast

• Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down an 8–1 decision that found the 1875 Civil Rights unconstitutional.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Decision
  • Found
  • Civil Rights

• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• 2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.

  

  LaToya London
  • House
  • Mean
  • Order

• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Fight
  • Same

• It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Yourself

• All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Up
  • Past
  • Words

• I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

  

  Max von Sydow

• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Environment
  • Revolution
  • Achievement

• So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

  

  Chuck Woolery
  • Government
  • Straight
  • Called

• Reading creates a sense of human fellowship. It is never (or rarely) a public activity, but in putting us in direct contact with other minds and sensibilities, it is a form of solitude which banishes loneliness. It can offer the consolation of knowing we are not alone, in our pleasures or in our suffering. It is in situations of deprivation that the value of reading – the deep need for books – becomes more vividly apparent.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Suffering
  • Books
  • Loneliness

• There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

  

  Alexis Taylor
  • Things
  • Comic
  • Accidental

• Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

  

  Dick Pound
  • Drug
  • Scientist
  • Cheating

• In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

  

  Hannah Szenes
  • Accidental
  • Life's chain