Vaclav Havel Quotes

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• 'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Fighting
  • Young
  • Sides

• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Parents
  • Down
  • Los Angeles

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Racism

• One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Smell

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Evil

• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature

• If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Innocent

• Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Time

• I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Edgy

• I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Time
  • Music

• The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe

• God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

  

  Katherine McCoy
  • Color
  • Information
  • Meaning

• Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

  

  Keith Donohue
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Reading

• So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Excuses

• Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • Women
  • Running
  • Brave

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Capable
  • Excuses