Richard Adams Quotes

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

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• That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Love
  • Book
  • Today

• She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Mind
  • She

• Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

  

  Kenko Yoshida

• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

  

  David Wenham

• Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

  

  James Broughton
  • Writing

• You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

  

  Christine Lagarde

• Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Missing

• Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

  

  Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • People
  • Together

• Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Children
  • Passion

• I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Design

• There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Why
  • Game
  • Reality

• My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

  

  David Almond
  • Work

• I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Health

• Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

  

  Anatoly Chubais
  • Money

• Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Silence
  • Hero

• I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Way

• The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

  

  B. F. Skinner

• My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Trying
  • She

• How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Public
  • Tricks
  • Entertaining

• Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Thinking
  • Survival
  • Rabbits