Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

FutureFacePresentMoreHumanOnly

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Jeremy Lin

WritingReadingSpeakBetterSkills

I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

Joel McCrea

HatFeelHorseDoingBootsActor

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

John Lydon

GoodYourselfSympathyLearnLook

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

Amanda Palmer

StarsPeopleMusiciansGoalRock

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Amy Heckerling

MoneyTomorrowYouGoMoviesOut

No one wants to be lectured at.

Amanda de Cadenet

Wants

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

DJ Khaled

LiveFaceWhyLegsOverSmooth

I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.

Connie Britton

LifeFatherWaitingMomMotherhood

Rising health care costs make it impossible to plan for the future, and that means it's impossible to hire more people.

Brett Guthrie

FutureHealthPeopleImpossiblePlan

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

Bruce Lipton

ScienceStruggleEndSurvivalMoral

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Anne Lamott

MorningAgeYourselfWishWorthOut

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

Percelle Ascott

BigBig FanFanSci-Fi

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