Leon Trotsky Quotes

Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

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• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Wait

• Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Family

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I started out as a Democrat.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Started
  • Democrat
  • Out

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• I think Sean could play running back. I think he could play receiver. I think he could play corner, ... Any expanded role is something we'll continue to work with because he's so unusual.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Running
  • Player

• Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Up
  • Statistics

• …It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • I Believe

• Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

  

  F. Matthias Alexander
  • Understanding
  • Effort

• The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

  

  Madame Roland
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Wise

• If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Respect
  • Principles
  • Measure

• The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

  

  R.K. Narayan
  • Death
  • Produce
  • Shock

• When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up

• Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Certain

• The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Success

• We are focused on managing what is under our control.

  

  Alain J. P. Belda
  • Control
  • Focused
  • Managing

• Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Conditions
  • Reflexes
  • Resistances