Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.

  

  Parker Harris
  • School
  • Remember
  • First

• When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Alone

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• I want people to tell me the truth.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Government
  • Loyal
  • Forum

• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Perfect
  • Expression
  • Award

• I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • Power
  • Moments

• Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Different
  • Book
  • Success

• I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Big

• It's always my situation. It's always, I've got to be somewhere for one or two years, they re-evaluate you from here and there and then go from there.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Situation
  • Reevaluate

• What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Villain

• A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man

• You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Ability
  • Accomplishment
  • Levels

• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Memory
  • Remembrance
  • Oblivion

• You are part of my story, memory and scenery, thank you.

  

  Kim Tae-hyung BTS
  • Story
  • Memory
  • Scenery

• But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

  

  Katie Davis
  • Running
  • Jesus
  • Ignorance

• Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Memory
  • Tragedy
  • Deaths