Denis de Rougemont Quotes

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

Denis de Rougemont

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Gift
  • Birthday

• TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Control
  • Trump
  • News

• Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Artistic

• The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Start

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Poetry

• What was he doing, the great god Pan,Down in the reeds by the river?Spreading ruin and scattering ban,Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,And breaking the golden lilies afloatWith the dragon-fly on the river.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Great
  • God
  • Fly

• …satyromaniacal…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• You know the affection I have always had for you Boudin and also the gratitude. I have never forgotten that you were the first who taught me to see and to comprehend.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Gratitude

• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.

  

  Max Born
  • Believe
  • Help
  • High

• MUCH AS I love the Jag, it’s too conspicuous for everyday police work. So that day I was driving a battered silver ex–Metropolitan Police Ford Asbo that, despite my best efforts, smelled vaguely of old stakeouts and wet dog.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Dog
  • Despite
  • Smelled

• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Like

• One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Technology
  • Novel
  • Relate

• Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Life
  • Existence
  • Romance