Mika Waltari Quotes

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Mika Waltari

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: September 19, 1908 - August 26, 1979

Topics

HeartEyesManBelieveWillHim

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

PeaceEqualityPeopleWorldEnd

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

YouKnowWillNeverHappenHit

Trump crossed the line all the time. Flustered during the debate because he couldn't out-debate Clinton on policy, he just leaned into the mic and dismissed her entirely: 'nasty woman.'

Mel Robbins

TimeWomanDebatePolicyLineNasty

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

LifeDietMy LifeWorthThreeEat

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

InspirationalDaySeedsPlantJudge

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

Rob Corddry

CharacterHeadWriterLoves

With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I'm like a technician and learn to break it all down - from head to toe.

Roy Jones Jr.

MeStartThinkingThoughtLearn

I have always loved going to school.

Rudolph A. Marcus

SchoolLovedAlwaysGoing

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.

Matt Bomer

HopeDo The Right ThingFlySociety

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

Dick Van Dyke

FunnyRememberDevelopmentDislike

We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.

DeForest Soaries

BestResearchInformationCountry

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Arthur Eddington

NatureMindControlHumanOverMay

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