Karl Kraus Quotes
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
Uma Thurman
I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance EMA, trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.
Harriet Harman
on global warming There's a group of people who, a little while ago, were saying, 'It's not happening.' That same group of people are now saying, 'Alright, it is happening, but it's not our fault.' That's a very dodgy position to be in. That's like saying, 'I'm not having an affair, and, anyway, she seduced me'.
Marcus Brigstocke
I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
Alexis Ohanian
Nobody has any security in loving me.
Brigitte Bardot
The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.
Kevin Bacon
In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook people alive, and directly and indirectly things changed. But, as I see it, the change is never through the music alone. It's also the circumstances around the music that will cause/create the effect. And sometimes it's just strictly accidental that a piece of music becomes a form of protest.
G.W. Sok
The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
William Gurnall
Well, but I want to see Mrs. Cumfrit a minute—it isn’t late—it’s quite early—I’ll go in for just a minute——’ And thrusting the wrap into her hand he made for the drawing-room. She watched him shut the door behind him, and hoped it didn’t matter, her not announcing him. After all, he had but lately left; it wasn’t as if he were calling that day for the first time. On the contrary, this was the third time since lunch that he had come in.
Elizabeth von Arnim
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
Vincent Van Gogh
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
Abraham Lincoln
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
