Gunter Grass Quotes

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

Gunter Grass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015

Topics

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The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

Robert Jeffress

LeaderMeasureStopTrueHimTakes

When you side with a man, you side with him.

Steve Bannon

ManYouHimSide

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

Louise Wilson

WorkRespectQualityPeopleStudents

All divisions are man-made.

Dean Ornish

Man-MadeDivisions

I can't stand the club scene.

Christine Taylor

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I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

Cliff Robertson

BadGoMoviesNothingFilmBeen

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Chuck Schumer

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It is important to find worth in yourself.

Chyler Leigh

YourselfWorthFindImportant

I'm thinking of the kids of the next generation and the music that they need to hear. Before, I was just rapping to rap. Now, I'm rapping to change the world.

Astro

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I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

Willy Bogner, Jr.

TryAlwaysSpecialistUniversalist

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

William Godwin

MeStrongBrainyDoubtArgument

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

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