August Strindberg Quotes

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

August Strindberg

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Streets
  • Hot

• I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Character

• When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Life
  • World
  • War

• The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • America
  • Together

• Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

  

  August Strindberg
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Savage