Vaclav Havel Quotes

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

Vaclav Havel

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • Day
  • Beauty

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Think
  • Possible
  • Last

• I would like to do something to help people and help the world.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Different
  • Know
  • Facts

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • World
  • Team
  • Respect

• I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Win

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • World
  • Help

• Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Support

• I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

  

  John Battelle
  • Up
  • World
  • Technology

• Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Islamic

• I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Health
  • Green
  • Frozen

• We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Live
  • Certain