Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Quotes

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

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• I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Political
  • Suffering

• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Long
  • Religious

• Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Chinese

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

  

  Raekwon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Heart

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Jokes

• I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Never

• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Country
  • Career

• Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Long

• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining … to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Earth

• 'Long ago we parted,' said the slight, still man of the Fiia. 'Longer ago we were one. What we are not, they are. What we are, they are not. Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Long

• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Long
  • Science

• I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Book
  • Philosophy
  • Zen Koan

• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Up
  • Team

• We need to stop defining Boeing's future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn't mean it was wrong or right; I just don't think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.

  

  Leanne Caret
  • Great
  • Future
  • Stop

• He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

  

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • Long
  • Suffering
  • Winning