Showing posts with label Bertolt Brecht. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bertolt Brecht. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Quotes

The best way to escape from
a problem is to solve it.
- Alan Saporta


The only place where success comes
before work is in a dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if
you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to
be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
- Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

The truth of the matter is that you always know
the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Our care should not be to have lived
long as to have lived enough.
- Seneca

What is robbing a bank compared
with founding a bank?
- Bertolt Brecht

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes

"I'm a great housekeeper. I get
divorced. I keep the house."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Be truthful, nature
only sides with truth."
- Adolf Loos

"Not admiring a mistake
is a bigger mistake."
- Robert Half

"If you hate a person, you hate something
in him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
- Hermann Hesse


"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Benjamin Disraeli


"Because things are the way they are,
things will not stay the way they are."
- Bertolt Brecht

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

"What we observe is not nature itself, but
nature exposed to our method of questioning."
- Werner Heisenberg

"The only questions that really matter
are the ones you ask yourself."
- Ursula Le Guin

"The scientific mind does not so much provide
the right answers as ask the right questions.’
- Claude Levi-Strauss

Don't be afraid of death so
much as an inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with
someone who knows what he's talking about.
- Sam Ewing

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Quotes

"Adding sound to movies would be like
putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
- Mary Pickford

"Life is what happens to you while
you are busy making plans."
- John Lennon

"Today I don't want to live
for, I want to live."
- Hugh Prather

"The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a
lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vincent Lombardi

"He who laughs has not yet
heard the bad news."
- Bertold Brecht

"When you are talking about love,
which is in itself by definition
infinite, then a little is enough."
- Adi Irani