Vaclav Havel Quotes
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
-
It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
-
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
-
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
-
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
-
I want to be judged on my own merits.
-
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
-
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
-
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
-
If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
-
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
-
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
-
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
-
I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
-
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
-
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
-
The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.
-
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
-
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
