Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990

Topics

RightIndividualExistentialDissent

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.

Andrew Sean Greer

GoodThinkThoughtLovedShortYou

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Andrew Wiles

MathematicsAchievementMeProblem

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Melanne Verveer

WomenBusinessSkillsMentorsShare

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Anna Deavere Smith

LifeCreativeEndeavorYourMaking

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Anna Friel

YouGoSingleDialogueBecauseFive

Patience has never been my strong suit.

Michael Chiklis

PatienceStrongNeverSuitBeen

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof

DeathBelieveBehaviorKarmaSerious

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

Rula Ghani

PeaceFriendsYouEnemiesMakeYour

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

Louie Gohmert

TiredPeopleFaceYouSeeingGet

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

Jon Porter

HomeCommunityWorldImmigration

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

Claud Cockburn

HairGrowInformationWigNatural

Progressive Democratic President Barack Obama swept into power hell-bent on forcing through a makeover of our nation's healthcare system. The result was a costly new tax and failed programme, the Affordable Care Act.

Anthony Scaramucci

PowerCareResultHealthcareNew

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