Georg Brandes Quotes

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Georg Brandes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927

Topics

TruthTimeHumanityStreamAway

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleReadingBlackThinkPoor

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeMusicDignitySameCheerful

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Mel Brooks

CountryPresidentsWives

It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

Max Holloway

BestYouKingsWantBeat

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Anna Julia Cooper

StrengthLaborHimWorthySeeVice

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

Stanley Tucci

TimeDownWriteI WriteMornings

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

Drew Barrymore

HellWantNeverPointWhereGet

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.

Cindy Sheehan

LoveSupportLongRiseCountrySay

I love writing.

Bonnie Hunt

LoveWritingI Love

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.

Shelley Berkley

EducationYouKindImproveSystem

When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.

Tyler Cowen

OptimismPeopleBlameInternetSay

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.

Rick Pitino

BusinessExperienceBetterYearDown

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