Ervin Laszlo Quotes
We are living in a time of dissent, upheaval, revolutions and struggle, frequently aimed at mutual destruction.
Quotes to Explore
-
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
-
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
-
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
-
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
-
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
-
The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
-
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
-
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
-
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
-
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
-
Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
Nastassja Kinski -
We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
-
I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
-
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
-
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
-
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.
-
My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
-
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
-
When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.
-
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.
-
We are living in a time of dissent, upheaval, revolutions and struggle, frequently aimed at mutual destruction.
