Richard Wagner Quotes

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• I love anything to do with history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Anything

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Career

• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Myself

• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
  • Environmental

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Open

• What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Person
  • Interference
  • Airs

• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Powerful

• America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Certain

• The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • World
  • Without
  • Reaction