Cesare Pavese Quotes

To know the world, one must construct it

Cesare Pavese

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• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Darkness

• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happen

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Nice

• I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • World
  • Great
  • Know

• A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Mother

• All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Everything
  • Research

• Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Home
  • Know
  • Proud

• China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Environmental
  • Cost

• The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • Service
  • Humanitarian

• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Guitar

• What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Friends
  • Intimacy

• Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Good
  • Bible

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  

  Thomas More
  • Different
  • Sun
  • Moon

• To know the world, one must construct it

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • World
  • Know
  • Construct