Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell Wilkie -
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Illinois Jacquet -
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
Kate Winslet -
I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
Maika Monroe -
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
E. L. James -
You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
Ira Glass
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger -
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
Edgar Winter -
Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.
Indra Nooyi -
The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'
Barbara W. Tuchman -
I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
Samuel Daniel -
It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
Frances Bean Cobain
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
W. Somerset Maugham -
We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
Zooey Deschanel -
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I sucked in school.
Miranda Lambert -
I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.
Chris Lane -
I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.
Chris Kyle
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington -
To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.
Susanne Langer -
Again!
James Joyce -
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer