August Strindberg Quotes

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

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• My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Happy
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enthusiasm
  • Negativity

• Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Time
  • True
  • Know

• I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Like
  • Need
  • Dresses

• Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People
  • Forever

• The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

  

  Bernard DeVoto
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Sun

• The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Beautiful

• My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

  

  King Tuff
  • Moments

• Only useless things are indispensable.

  

  Francis Picabia

• You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Up
  • Men
  • Trying

• Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Moon
  • Miss
  • Shoot

• You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Expression
  • Hip Hop

• The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Goal
  • Feminist
  • Spirituality

• There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Crowd

• We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Being
  • Cases
  • Away

• Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Financial
  • Credit
  • Consumers

• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Consumers
  • Flame
  • Peak