„My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.“
Źródło: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 9
Peter Handke1
austriacki pisarz i tłumacz 1942Podobne cytaty
„I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.“
— Booker T. Washington African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856 - 1915
The Story of My Life and Work, vol. I (1900), ch. XV: Cuban Education and the Chicago Peace Jubilee Address http://web.archive.org/20071031084035/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.1/html/126.html
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)
Kontekst: But those who say they hate slavery, and are opposed to it, but yet act with the Democratic party — where are they? Let us apply a few tests. You say that you think slavery is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to restrain it. Is there anything else that you think wrong, that you are not willing to deal with as a wrong? Why are you so careful, so tender of this one wrong and no other? You will not let us do a single thing as if it was wrong; there is no place where you will allow it to be even called wrong! We must not call it wrong in the Free States, because it is not there, and we must not call it wrong in the Slave States because it is there; we must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion; we must not bring it into the Tract Society or the other societies, because those are such unsuitable places, and there is no single place, according to you, where this wrong thing can properly be called wrong!
— Donna Strickland Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner 1959
In [Casey, Liam, 'We are marching forward': Canadian scientist becomes third woman to win Nobel Prize in physics, https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/we-are-marching-forward-canadian-scientist-becomes-third-woman-to-win-nobel-prize-in-physics-1.4117566, 5 October 2018, CTV News Toronto, October 2, 2018]
— Rita Mae Brown Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944
Starting from Scratch (1989)
Kontekst: I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
„So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go?“
— Masashi Kishimoto, książka Naruto
Źródło: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
„I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
Źródło: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
„I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.“
— Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006
"Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20.
— Ingmar Bergman Swedish filmmaker 1918 - 2007
BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3616037.stm (10 April 2004).
— Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967
Funny the Way It Is
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009)
— Leonard Cohen Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934 - 2016
As quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom" in The Daily Telegraph (26 April 1993) http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/feb93.htm
Kontekst: I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. … I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all. I've always been free from hope. It's never been one of my great solaces. I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful..... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.
— Frank Miller American writer, artist, film director 1957
Response to the question "Is There A God?" by Stephen Thompson AVClub (9 October 2002) http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24569
„I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else.“
— Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960
William Shakespeare, portrayed as looking back over his career as he finishes writing The Tempest as one of two plays commissioned by Morpheus (aka Dream, aka The Sandman). "The Tempest," issue #75 of The Sandman (1996), collected in The Wake.
Kontekst: Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, "So this is how it feels," and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own.
— Chanelle Peloso Canadian actress 1994
The Bletchley Circle : San Francisco | Interview with Chanelle Peloso as Hailey Yarner https://www.bradfordzone.co.uk/the-bletchley-circle-san-francisco-interview-with-chanelle-peloso-as-hailey-yarner/ (19 July 2018)