Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

Alija Izetbegovic

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• Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • World
  • Want
  • See

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Done

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Washington
  • Mecca

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Water

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • World
  • Television
  • Fair

• I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

  

  Kaskade
  • World
  • Best
  • Always

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Business
  • City

• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Self

• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Up
  • World
  • Father

• There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

  

  Anna Chancellor

• She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • She
  • Leadership
  • Qualities

• But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains - A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains.Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune-favored child - Now locked for aye, in mental night, A haggard mad-man wild.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Night
  • Mad

• I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.

  

  B. B. King
  • Night
  • Rain
  • Weekend

• We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • World
  • Feeling