Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into lifeArthur Schopenhauer
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet -
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
Gary Zukav -
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman -
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
Beatrice Wood -
I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis -
I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
Laura Dern
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana Santana -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair -
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus -
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
Barton Gellman -
I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
Urs Fischer -
I want to become more famous, even more famous.
Yayoi Kusama
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Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
Madison Pettis -
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama -
The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.
Narendra Modi -
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
John Ortberg -
I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
Patsy Cline
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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
John Tillotson -
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare -
With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
Vin Diesel -
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
Elisabeth Elliot -
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life
Arthur Schopenhauer