Ismail Kadare Quotes

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Ismail Kadare

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FreedomGreatLiteratureAlwaysLike

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Jim Rohn

EnvyWatchOnlyWhoManyFew

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.

Joe R. Lansdale

ThreeNeverWriteNextSavageYears

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

John Burroughs

NatureGreatTimeBeginningSpace

The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

Andrew Nikiforuk

WorkBusinessFinancialProblemOil

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Jean Paul

GreatThoughtYouActBeen

I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.

Michael Bisping

GreatPeopleDownLostGoWant

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.

Amish Tripathi

SportsCreativeThoughtBodyYoung

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

Stephen Covey

DoingKeepGoingGetting

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

Rodrigo Rato

SupportFinancialCreditYouCountry

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Ron Moody

SociologyProfessorBeenWouldLiked

In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

Luke Evans

LoveLiveSeaGreatMyselfSomeone

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

Ari Graynor

LifeCrazyThinkWhyReasonTask

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