Alfred Nobel Quotes

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

Alfred Nobel

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Increase

• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Tough

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Christmas

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Important
  • Question
  • Luck

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
  • Become

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Red

• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Value
  • Course
  • Promises

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Victory

• I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work