Andreas's quotes

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,425 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,085 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,909 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,192 people liked it

"So much technology, so little talent."
— Vernor Vinge (Rainbows End)

3 people liked it

"For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority."
— Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery)

3 people liked it

"Demain c'est travail et le travail est le plus important. Tu es un très bon acteur, le travail marche bien... Je sais, il y a la vie privée... mais la vie privée elle est boiteuse pour tout le monde. Les films sont plus harmonieux que la vie, Alphonse. Il n'y a pas d'embouteillage dans les films. Les films avancent comme des trains, tu comprends, comme des trains dans la nuit. Les gens comme toi, comme moi, tu le sais bien, en est fait pour être heureux dans le travail... dans notre travail de cinéma."
— Francois Truffaut

1 person liked it

"Für mich besteht die Photographie im gleichzeitigen blitzschnellen Erkennen der inneren Bedeutung der Tatsache einerseits, und auf der anderen Seite des strengen und rückhaltlosen Aufbaus der optisch erfaßbaren Formenwelt, die jede Tatsache zum Ausdruck bringt. Indem wir leben, entdecken wir uns selbst und gleichzeitig die Außenwelt, die auf uns einwirkt, auf die wir aber auch unsererseits einwirken können. Zwischen dieser inneren und äußeren Welt muß ein Gleichgewicht geschaffen werden, die beiden Welten bilden in einem immerwährenden Dialog ein einziges Ganzes, und den Begriff davon müssen wir mitzuteilen suchen."
— Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers)

2 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
2,034 people liked it

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

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"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, time
1,553 people liked it

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books
1,386 people liked it

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
1,291 people liked it

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent
952 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
841 people liked it

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
715 people liked it

"Never confuse movement with action."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: action
86 people liked it

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
152 people liked it

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
39 people liked it

"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing
39 people liked it

"The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. "
— Jean Renoir

3 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,810 people liked it

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
363 people liked it

"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of those who-do-things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails. But I don't even do that anymore."
— Dorothy Parker

59 people liked it

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
212 people liked it

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: convictions, criticism
499 people liked it

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
88 people liked it

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: military
62 people liked it

"Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: determination, perseverence
76 people liked it

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique
520 people liked it

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: adversity, character, power
366 people liked it

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: opportunity, work
122 people liked it