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Something Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
- We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
- I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
- Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be…
- I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that…
- Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something…
- Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things…
- There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
- You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
- This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again…
- The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we…
- In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are…
- The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from…
- Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen