Richard von Weizsaecker Quotes

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

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• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Differences
  • Point
  • Accept

• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Goal
  • Accept

• My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Accept
  • Someone

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Down

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Accept

• The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Guilty

• Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • Meaningful
  • Possible

• There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Better
  • Accept
  • Feedback

• I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Person
  • Guilty
  • Found

• No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Guilty
  • Crime

• To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Yoga

• It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Sad

• I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Dad

• Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Action
  • Wish

• I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Guilty
  • Lines
  • Magazines

• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Memory

• All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

  

  Richard von Weizsaecker
  • Guilty
  • Possible
  • Accept