Gertrud von Le Fort Quotes
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.Gertrud von Le Fort
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
Tatiana Maslany -
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
Walid Jumblatt -
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie -
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
Octavio Paz -
You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
Ram Shriram -
We would not have invaded a country that did not attack us. We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families. We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people.
Al Gore
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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
Andrew Pyper -
I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.
Brad Carson -
Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.
Katherine Ryan -
Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'
Kevin Hart -
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.
John F. Tierney -
My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.
Jennie Garth
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
Antonia Fraser -
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy -
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
John Dyer -
To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.
Jacob Weisberg -
We will also assume in the present study that individual values are taken as data and are not capable of being altered by the nature of the decision process itself
Kenneth Arrow -
Older cliches are retrieved both as inherent principles that inform the new ground and new awareness, and as archetypal nostalgia figures with transformed meaning in relation to the new ground.
Marshall McLuhan
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Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny…
Liam James -
More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.
Adolf Hitler -
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass -
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
Stephen Covey -
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.
Gertrud von Le Fort