Ifs Quote by Vaclav Havel Download Open image “If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.” — Vaclav Havel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Play President Want Way
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect. — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the… — Dixie Carter Copy Share Image
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
