
„It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.“
— Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
A collection of quotes on the topic of unfaithfulness, relationships, relation, other.
„It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.“
— Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
„Death ends a life, not a relationship.“
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
„I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.“
— Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments
"I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself."
Clary and Jace, pg.449
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
„After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.“
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
„The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
„It's a match made in heaven… by a retarded angel.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
„The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.“
— Pema Chödron American philosopher 1936
„Value your friendship. Value your relationships.“
— Barbara Bush former First Lady of the United States 1925 - 2018
„Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.“
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954
„Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.“
— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015
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— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
— Xenophon, book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 29.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
— Alexis Karpouzos 1967
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2
— Michel Foucault French philosopher 1926 - 1984
Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)
— Chris Hedges American journalist 1956
“ [30:02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOlg_2qAbUA Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion]” (2014)
— Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
— Douglas McGregor American professor 1906 - 1964
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 11 (2006; 13)
— Ivan Pavlov Russian physiologist 1849 - 1936
Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals (1906).
— Greta Thunberg, book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Speech by Greta Thunberg, climate activist https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/avdb/video/speech-greta-thunberg-climate-activist to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels (21 February 2019)
Cited in No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Penguin Books, 2019, pages 37 and 38-39 (ISBN 9780141991740).
2019, European Economic and Social Committee (February 2019)
— Alfredo Rocco Italian politician and jurist 1875 - 1935
Source: The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925), p. 111
— Augustus founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire -63 - 14 BC
Marcus Antonius, taunting Augustus for his conduct during the Sicilian war against Sextus Pompey in 36 BC; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
— Nathuram Godse Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi 1910 - 1949
Nathuram Godse: Why I Assassinated Gandhi (1993)
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer 1860 - 1935
„It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Source: Emerson in His Journals
„I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.“
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
— Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
11 November 1842
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
„Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
— Tenzin Gyatso spiritual leader of Tibet 1935
Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu, BBC (Friday, 2 June 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5040198.stm
— Christopher McCandless American hiker and explorer 1968 - 1992
In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, book Philosophie Zoologique
Ce que la nature fait avec beaucoup de temps, nous le faisons tous les jours, en changeant nous-mêmes subitement, par rapport à un végétal vivant, les circonstances dans lesquelles lui et tous les individus de son espèce se rencontroient.
Philosophie Zoologique, Vol. I (1809), p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals (1914), p. 109.
— Michel Foucault French philosopher 1926 - 1984
Les discours sont des éléments ou des blocs tactiques dans le champ des rapports de force; il peut y en avoir de différents et même de contradictoires à l'intérieur d'une même stratégie; ils peuvent au contraire circuler sans changer de forme entre des stratégies opposées.
Vol I, pp. 101-102
History of Sexuality (1976–1984)
— François Arago French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician 1786 - 1853
Tel est le privilége du génie : il aperçoit, il saisit des rapports, là où des yeux vulgaires lie voient que des faits isolés.
Joseph Fourier, p. 412.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859)
„Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.“
— Stendhal, book The Red and the Black
Les signes ne peuvent pas figurer, dans un rapport d'espion, aussi avantageusement que des paroles.
Vol. I, ch. XXVII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)
„The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
This Is My Story (1937)
— Charles Baudelaire French poet 1821 - 1867
<p>Quel est celui de nous qui n'a pas, dans ses jours d'ambition, rêvé le miracle d'une prose poétique, musicale sans rythme et sans rime, assez souple et assez heurtée pour s'adapter aux mouvements lyriques de l'âme, aux ondulations de la rêverie, aux soubresauts de la conscience?</p><p>C'est surtout de la fréquentation des villes énormes, c'est du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports que naît cet idéal obsédant.</p>
"Dédicace, À Arsène Houssaye" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose
Le spleen de Paris (1862)
— Jules Verne, book Around the World in Eighty Days
<p>Phileas Fogg avait gagné son pari. Il avait accompli en quatre-vingts jours ce voyage autour du monde ! Il avait employé pour ce faire tous les moyens de transport, paquebots, railways, voitures, yachts, bâtiments de commerce, traîneaux, éléphant. L'excentrique gentleman avait déployé dans cette affaire ses merveilleuses qualités de sang-froid et d'exactitude. Mais après ? Qu'avait-il gagné à ce déplacement ? Qu'avait-il rapporté de ce voyage ?</p><p>Rien, dira-t-on ? Rien, soit, si ce n'est une charmante femme, qui — quelque invraisemblable que cela puisse paraître — le rendit le plus heureux des hommes !</p><p>En vérité, ne ferait-on pas, pour moins que cela, le Tour du Monde ?</p>
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Ch. XXXVII: In Which It Is Shown that Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness
— Gene Youngblood, book Expanded Cinema
Source: Expanded Cinema, 1970, p. 346; The Artist as Ecologist http://www.screeningthepast.com/2011/11/the-artist-as-ecologist/; Partly cited in: Derek Owens. Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation. National Council of Teachers of English, 1 jan. 2001
„Meaning is found in relationship.“
— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973
Meaning is the relationship of the foreground figure to the background.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 4
„Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.“
— Lee Iacocca American businessman 1924 - 2019
„In my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than the text-books.“
— Harold Kroto British chemist 1939 - 2016
Citation
„There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.“
— Francois Mauriac French author 1885 - 1970
— Zaman Ali Pakistani philosopher 1993
"Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part V
„You can't have a happy life and an unhappy relationship - it's a contradiction.“
— Teal Swan American spiritual teacher 1984
— Alfredo Rocco Italian politician and jurist 1875 - 1935
Source: The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925), p. 114
— Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia 1892 - 1975
"Investiture of New Patriarch" (11 May 1971), in Important Utterances of H. I. M. Emperor Haile Selassie I, 1963-1972 (1972) edited by the Imperial Ethiopian Ministry of Information, p. 268
— Gerald Cohen Canadian philosopher 1941 - 2009
which is not to say that they lack it!
V. Coda
Why Not Socialism? (2009)
— Antonie Pannekoek Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist 1873 - 1960
Section 1.2
Workers Councils (1947)
— Laurence Clarkson English theologian 1615 - 1667
A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)
— Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011
“And then Quentin was there somehow. And so were you, in a strange sort of way. And it was all so peaceful.” Peaceful?
"Why Women Aren’t Funny" https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/01/, Vanity Fair, (January 1, 2007).
2000s, 2007
— Urvashi Butalia Feminist and historian 1952
Urvashi Butalia, Other Side Of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak Indian independence activist 1856 - 1920
Sri Aurobindo, (From an introduction to a book entitled Speeches and Writings of Tilak.), quoted from Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm
— Joseph Chamberlain British businessman, politician, and statesman 1836 - 1914
Cheers.
Speech in Birmingham (16 May 1902), quoted in The Times (17 May 1902), p. 12
1900s
— Joseph Chamberlain British businessman, politician, and statesman 1836 - 1914
Letter (July 1895), quoted in N. Murrell Marris, The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain: The Man and the Statesman (London: Hutchinson, 1900), p. 379
1890s
— Isaac Newton, book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Definitions - Scholium
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
— Karl Pearson English mathematician and biometrician 1857 - 1936
The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)
— Karl Pearson English mathematician and biometrician 1857 - 1936
The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)
— Karl Pearson English mathematician and biometrician 1857 - 1936
As quoted by E.S. Pearson, Karl Pearson: An Appreciation of Some Aspects of his Life and Work (1938) and cited in Bernard J. Norton, "Karl Pearson and Statistics: The Social Origins of Scientific Innovation" in Social Studies of Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Theme Issue: Sociology of Mathematics (Feb.,1978), pp. 3-34.
— Tamiaki Yoneya Japanese string theorist 1947
"String Theory: Where are we now? https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0004075 arXiv preprint hep-th/0004075 (2000). (quote from pp. 9–10)
— Jacques Ellul French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist 1912 - 1994
Source: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 17
— Geoffrey Blainey Australian historian 1930
The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia (2015)
— Ernest King United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations 1878 - 1956
In a letter from King to Admiral Harold B. Stark in November 1943, as quoted in Churchill's Anchor: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound (2000) by Robin Brodhurst.
1940s
— Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of all Heresies
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 6: Hippolytus, Bishop Of Rome, Volume 1 P. 90
Refutation of All Heresies
— Juan Felipe Herrera American writer 1948
On the role of beauty in poetry in “Poetry is Built for Compassion: An Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera” https://thi.ucsc.edu/poetry-built-compassion-interview-juan-felipe-herrera/ (Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz; 2019 Feb 27)
„With all of my books I’m interested in where people come from in relation to who they are…“
— Bernardine Evaristo British writer 1959
On her writing interests in “Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I want to put presence into absence’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/27/bernardine-evaristo-girl-woman-other-interview in The Guardian (2019 Apr 27)
— Helena Roerich Russian philosopher 1879 - 1955
292
Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book One (The Call) (1924)
— Laila Lalami American writer 1968
On fashioning a new sense of self in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” https://www.thenation.com/article/laila-lalami-interview-the-other-americans/ in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)
— Maxim Mernes Russian businessman, investor, blogger 1996
About the state and technology
Source: Экономика Цифровой Эры, LiveLib, ru, 2019-11-21 https://www.livelib.ru/author/1229982-maksim-mernes,
— Zafar Sareshwala Indian businessman 1962
Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. 2014
— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965
Essay in This I Believe : 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142
— Harry Hay American gay rights activist 1912 - 2002
The Homosexual's Responsibility to the Community (1967)
— Robert Sheckley American writer 1928 - 2005
Slaves of Time (p. 19)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
— Madan Lal Dhingra Indian revolutionary 1883 - 1909
quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
On what makes a great character “Maurene Goo on Writing Relatable Characters and her Enduring Love of K Dramas” http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2018/02/goo/ (Public Libraries Online; 2018 Feb 28)
— Morgan Parker (writer) American poet
On her feelings about romance in “Morgan Parker: ‘In the back of my mind I’m on a slave ship, yet I’m also here just telling you how it is.’” https://www.guernicamag.com/miscellaneous-files-interview-morgan-parker/ in Guernica Magazine (2019 Mar 22)
— Theodor Mommsen German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer 1817 - 1903
The History of Rome - Volume 2
— Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794
Speech on the Trial of Louis XVI (Dec. 3, 1792)
Source: https://ihrf.univ-paris1.fr/enseignement/outils-et-materiaux-pedagogiques/textes-et-sources-sur-la-revolution-francaise/proces-du-roi-discours-de-robespierre/ Speech on the Trial of Louis XVI (Dec. 3, 1792)
en.wikiquote.org - Maximilien Robespierre / Quotes / Speech on the Trial of Louis XVI (Dec. 3, 1792) https://ihrf.univ-paris1.fr/enseignement/outils-et-materiaux-pedagogiques/textes-et-sources-sur-la-revolution-francaise/proces-du-roi-discours-de-robespierre/
— R. J. Palacio American author 1963
On thinking about kids who are different in “Author R.J. Palacio talks to LI kids” https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/family/kidsday/rj-palacio-wonder-author-interview-1.20364470 in Newsday (2018 Aug 8)
— Dany Laferrière Haitian Canadian novelist and journalist 1953
On working on a French-language dictionary as part his duties at the Académie française in “Dany Laferrière, The Art of Fiction No. 237” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7040/dany-laferriere-the-art-of-fiction-no-237-dany-laferriere in The Paris Review (Fall 2017)
— Gregory of Nazianzus Christian saint, bishop, and theologian 329 - 389
Concerning his resignment from his office as Patriarch of Constantinople
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 32 (p. 338)
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 38 (p. 420)
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 30 (p. 330)