Lavilin Quotes & Sayings

To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate ... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative. — Leo Strauss

My dad brought me up to be a good person. — Courtney Eaton

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own. — Joss Stone

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. — Charles Kennedy

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in. — Ben Barnes

When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over. — Lilly Singh

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house. — Billy Williams

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success. — Thomas Boswell

[Reactionaries] Just feeling urgent and compulsive is enough to hurt us. We keep ourselves in a crisis state ... ready to react to emergencies that aren't really emergencies. Someone does something, so we must do something back. Someone says something, so we must say something. Someone feels a certain way, so we must feel a certain way. WE JUMP INTO THE FIRST FEELING THAT COMES OUR WAY AND THEN WALLOW IN IT. — Melody Beattie

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too. — Heinrich Heine

Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. — Tony Robbins

I believe there is not any big difference between any consumer business, whether it's a bank or insurance or vodka or chocolate, whatever it is. — Roustam Tariko

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion. — Iain M. Banks

I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. — Edward Said