Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mind
  • Progress
  • Human

• I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Late

• I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Hope
  • Brave
  • Decisions

• I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Girl

• Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • History

• You can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantYou can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantWalk right in, it's around the backJust a half a mile from the railroad trackYou can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

  

  Arlo Guthrie

• If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• Dovea in memoria avere il signor mio,Che l'oro e 'l premio ogni durezza inchina;Ma, quando bisognò, l'ebbe in oblio,Ed ei si procacciò la sua ruina.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • May
  • Peace
  • Popular

• There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language, culture, all this stuff - but to be well-versed in Western references as well.

  

  Ken Liu
  • History
  • Culture
  • English

• When I was a teenager, I worked on a show that was about a family.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Family
  • Teenager

• The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Work

• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Suffering
  • Would
  • Appearance

• Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Time
  • Talent