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 tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
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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 -
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos
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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 -
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
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In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.
Matt Taibbi -
I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.
Bennett Miller -
I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.
Max Aaron -
Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.
Bill Owens -
Being in the Premier League would be a dream come true.
Jamie Vardy -
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