Vaclav Havel Quotes

It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."

Vaclav Havel

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Want
  • Play
  • YouTube

• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Attractive

• The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Waiting
  • Writer
  • Newcomers

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mother
  • Sea
  • Sister

• It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."

  

  Vaclav Havel
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