Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Topics

GodManLuckHelpNothingHand

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Joanna Trollope

MoreAlwaysDramaticTensionBecause

I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core.

Jessica Steen

LovePoetryMeDeepDownYoung

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Andrew Weil

ChangeMusicPowerInspireUsEven

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Robert Peel

NationConscienceLawsMold

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

Robert Rodriguez

YouDoneWantRealAlwaysFilm

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

John Russell

PeaceCannotHonourLonger

A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

Rudolf Steiner

ChildhoodEnoughFeelingAuthority

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Martin Seligman

WorkEducationMarriageSportsHelp

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

Lloyd Banks

LoyaltyMeHonorImportantSeriously

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

Don Drysdale

TeamDownTeammatesMy OwnTwoOwn

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Dennis Prager

HappyPeopleYouLazyWiserBecome

Of course, you decide which story you want to tell. For me, it's been very authentic, so sometimes I'm super happy, and I post four pictures one after the other; sometimes I'm busy, and I don't. Sometimes I'm sad, and I post a sad picture.

Chiara Ferragni

SadHappyMeStoryBusyPicture

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