Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881

Topics

ActionThoughtConcreteObscure

Things work in cycles.

Joan Jett

WorkThingsCycles

If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.

Andy Samberg

GoodWatchOne ThingLikedThenSNL

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Smokey Robinson

PeopleArtistLookMotownBeing

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

Rush Limbaugh

MeSeriousPresidentConservative

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Mike Peters

SuccessToiletsWereOriginally

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

Michael Weatherly

MusicAgeWaterPastSchoolTeam

The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist.

Monica Crowley

PlayRacePunishmentWithoutLeft

I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed.

Jonathan Krisel

FamilyPeopleMomHurtBagYear

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Deborah Tannen

WomenMenBookAttentionYouStop

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Christopher Lasch

FamilySupportLawCapitalismWill

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Corliss Lamont

FreedomManBelieveDecisionsChoice

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

WalkPeopleWaitStoryThinkEnd

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