Bram van Velde Quotes

You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going.

Bram van Velde

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• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Today
  • You

• If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Good
  • Think

• Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Kids
  • Culture

• There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Problems

• Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Live
  • Los Angeles

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• People in misery is what most important in art.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Year

• ...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Wish

• I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Mind
  • She
  • Girl

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Single

• I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • People
  • Real

• A gene that promotes nurturing behavior postcopulation could... spread throughout the population, to the extent that the offspring of people with the nurturing gene fare better, as a group, in the competition for resources and mates.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Competition

• Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Service

• Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Judge

• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • World
  • Why
  • War

• Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Children
  • Age
  • Teacher

• You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Advance