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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
Magdi Yacoub -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
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 -
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
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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 -
Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
Tamron Hall -
People in misery is what most important in art.
Zhang Yimou -
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Anthony Trollope -
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 -
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
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My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.
Joan Didion -
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
Kathryn Minshew -
Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
John Rhys-Davies -
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
John Foster Dulles -
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
Epictetus -
I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
Ziggy Marley
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The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
Albert Bandura -
If you just want to be a star, go away.
Jenifer Lewis -
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson -
Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.
Lao Tzu -
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.
Molly Ivins -
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