Eugen Sandow Quotes

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

Eugen Sandow

• Ignorance
• Comfort
• Civilisation
• Voluntarily

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Age
  • Acting
  • Used

• You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • World
  • Start
  • Little Things

• Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moving

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• 8) History never repeats itself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Power

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• 'The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal...'(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Father
  • Die
  • Star

• In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I think when everyone found out I was Moana, we got banana bread practically every night of the week. Aside from that, it's been really normal!

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • Night

• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Today

• No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Travel

• Good day, fair maidens.

  

  Val Venis
  • Good

• It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Memory
  • Because
  • Happened

• Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

  

  Eugen Sandow
  • Ignorance
  • Comfort
  • Civilisation