Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
Pamela Meyer -
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride -
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson -
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax -
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu -
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
Karin Fossum
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler -
I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
Wangari Maathai -
I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
Zara Cox -
I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Ian Mcewan
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos -
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Quentin Crisp -
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
Madeleine L'Engle -
没有一个人民的军队,便没有人民的一切。
Mao Zedong -
It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
Babe Ruth
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I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.
Taliesin -
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
Elizabeth McCracken -
A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
Aberjhani -
One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. -
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
Arthur Schopenhauer