Vaclav Havel Quotes

Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

Vaclav Havel

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
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• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
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• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
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• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
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• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
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• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
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• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

  

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• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

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  • Up
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• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

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• Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Confused

• We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.

  

  Louise Hart
  • World
  • Simple
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• Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

  

  Alveda King
  • Important
  • Real
  • Heart

• Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Heart
  • Hope