Arthur Koestler Quotes

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: September 5, 1905 - March 1, 1983

Topics

HistoryPoliticsEndPossibleFair

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

Michael Corbat

WorldBetterDoingPlaceRightUp

I turned 7 in 1973 and remember Bobby Riggs arriving at the Astrodome on a chariot pulled by showgirls before his 'battle of the sexes' tennis match against Billie Jean King.

Steve Rushin

KingBattleRememberTennisAgainst

People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.

Trisha Yearwood

LoveTimePeopleSingWhoTruly

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

TruthTruth IsThinkFindingYouUp

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

Debbie Rowe

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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

Chris Cornell

AttitudeMusicStyleParentsPeople

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

Cobi Jones

ThinkBetterDoingGrowingWell

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

Chrystia Freeland

DemocracyWorldPoliticalChoice

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

Chuck Palahniuk

GodAgeDieEveryoneMayLike

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

Britt Robertson

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Men don't like eating out of cans. And I don't like eating out of cans too much, either.

Aretha Franklin

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With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

Anton Corbijn

PeoplePhotographyYouLookPictures

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