Ari Shavit Quotes

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

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• This bikini made me a success.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Success
  • Me
  • Made

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Success
  • Political
  • Creativity

• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Violence

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Success
  • Jealousy

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Game
  • Violence

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Regret

• I always thought 'Into The Gloss' would be successful, but I didn't really know what my definition of success was.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Success

• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Justice
  • Violence

• China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World
  • Success
  • Growth

• I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Violence

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Experiences

• We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

  

  Ari Shavit
  • Success
  • Violence
  • Victims