Eva Hoffman Quotes

Pleasure exists in middle time, in time that is neither too accelerated or too slowed down.

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Expectation
  • Exists

• All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Beauty
  • Glory
  • Exists

• In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Politics
  • Public
  • Conflict

• There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream…you!

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Power
  • Person
  • Exists

• The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Mankind
  • Conflict

• There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Genius
  • Creature
  • Exists

• The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Exists
  • Communist
  • Totalitarian

• Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Enemies

• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  

  William Blake
  • Exists
  • Dust
  • Tear

• Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Reality
  • Lies
  • Difference

• Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Nature
  • Exists

• You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Life
  • Person
  • Exists

• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Exists

• All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Relation
  • Conditions
  • Exists

• There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Exists
  • Middle East
  • Democratization

• I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Law
  • Exists
  • Phenomena

• I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.

  

  Lauren Southern
  • Immigration
  • Boat
  • Exists

• I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

  

  Wilhelm Reich
  • God
  • Nature
  • Energy

• Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Character
  • Change

• I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Player
  • Attitude
  • Brilliant

• There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Life
  • Cheap
  • Elitist

• Pleasure exists in middle time, in time that is neither too accelerated or too slowed down.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Exists
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