Vaclav Havel Quotes

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Vaclav Havel

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• 'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Done
  • Movie

• BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• 'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up - and everyone who is 10 and up, basically - can use their gifts and talents to help the world in a way that's unique to them.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

  

  John Webster
  • Up
  • Men
  • Wolf

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Man
  • Control