Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Don’t start anything you can’t finish.

Elfriede Jelinek

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• Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Important
  • Education
  • Utah

• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Down
  • Foot

• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Idea

• I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • School
  • Drama
  • TV Shows

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Worry
  • Random
  • Risks

• I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Inspiring
  • Often

• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Europe
  • Too

• Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Never
  • Period
  • Out

• In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Believe
  • Gift
  • Greek

• There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

  

  Liya Kebede

• I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life

• I guess you're only as good as the waves.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Good
  • Waves

• I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

  

  Jaime King
  • Done
  • Training

• The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Don’t start anything you can’t finish.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek