Johan Huizinga Quotes

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Johan Huizinga

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

Topics

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So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

Jo Brand

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As a judge, I held people accountable when they did wrong. That's why I cracked down on violent criminals and stopped the big banks when they tried to kick families out of their homes.

Ann Callis

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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

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Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

Jeff Goldblum

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People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

Skeet Ulrich

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My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

Missy Elliott

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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Loretta Lynn

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The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Jon Meacham

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In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Christopher Hitchens

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Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

Serge Schmemann

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I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.

Norman Reedus

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