Harry Graf Kessler Quotes

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

Harry Graf Kessler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 23, 1868 - November 30, 1937

Topics

MeWorldProcessCivilizationNow

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

Jodie Whittaker

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I've taken just 12 vacation days in 18 years.

Jesse White

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I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.

Jeremy Clarkson

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Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

Robert Mugabe

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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

John Piper

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Consumer behaviour changes in a glacial fashion.

John Quelch

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I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour.

Tony Bennett

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To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

Tom Selleck

MeWaitGunProcessYouDown

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

Mary Lynn Rajskub

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We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.

Dean Kamen

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My fans are called 'Mayniacs'. They enjoy screaming and chasing me and taking pictures.

Conor Maynard

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