Albert Einstein Quotes

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

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• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
  • Texas

• The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • Years
  • New

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Being
  • Walk
  • Prison

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • High
  • Motherhood

• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Reading

• You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Yourself

• People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • May
  • Pretty

• The harvest of your Summer 1910 is displayed on our walls. I like some of them terrifically. The 'certainty' with which most of it is done makes me feel ashamed of myself. The thousand steps that I need to take for a picture are of no advantage, as I sometimes foolishly used to think. Things must change.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Done
  • Picture
  • Summer

• As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Ambition

• It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Hope

• For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hope
  • Idea
  • Absurd