“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. — David Gross Copy Share Image
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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