Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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• I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Senator
  • Supporters

• I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Win

• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Moment

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Feel
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Action

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Forever

• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Smart
  • Really
  • Thinkers

• My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Grandfather
  • Then
  • Mining

• My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Government
  • Responsible
  • Americans

• Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Revolution

• The revolution begins at home.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Home
  • Revolution
  • Begins

• Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment...you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Feeling

• You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.

  

  Joanna Coles

• If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Injustice
  • Bother

• The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Revolution
  • Totalitarianism