Bram van Velde Quotes

It is true that other people can help you, and to lasting effect.. .If I hadn't had Beckett in 1940, I'm not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure.. .At that time he he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on.. .I don't know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in 'The Unamable'.

Bram van Velde

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• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
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  • Society
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• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
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  • Responsibility
  • Better

• Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

  

  Paracelsus
  • She
  • Help
  • Nature

• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Spirit

• Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Religious
  • Spirit

• Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

  

  Zhang Xin
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  • Military
  • Discipline

• It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • True
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

  

  Jamila Woods
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• When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Today
  • Humanity

• The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Black
  • Humanity

• I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
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  • Family
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• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hope

• The mere fact that Tommy Atkins saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.

  

  Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
  • Fear
  • Hero
  • Hunger

• It is true that other people can help you, and to lasting effect.. .If I hadn't had Beckett in 1940, I'm not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure.. .At that time he he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on.. .I don't know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in 'The Unamable'.

  

  Bram van Velde
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