Vaclav Havel Quotes

When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.

Vaclav Havel

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• I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Love
  • Entertainment
  • Attitudes

• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Government
  • Child

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • May
  • Wish

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Great
  • Children
  • Love

• When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Work
  • Mistakes
  • Motivational

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Up
  • Reason

• I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

  

  Sam Riley
  • People
  • School
  • Acting

• Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

  

  Troian Bellisario
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Easy

• To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Truth
  • House
  • Inspiration

• Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

  

  Sabrina Ward Harrison
  • Truth
  • Fly
  • Wings

• Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Province

• When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Person
  • Lead