„Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.“
— W. Somerset Maugham, buch The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
„I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.“
To Hillary Rodham Clinton when they both attended Yale University, repeated in a 2007 campaign speech. http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9904609
2000s
Übernommen aus Wikiquote. Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Bill Clinton3
42. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1946Ähnliche Zitate
— Michelle Obama lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States 1964
2010s, Democratic National Convention speech (2012)
— George S. Patton IV U.S. Army general 1923 - 2004
Quelle: The Fighting Pattons (1997) by Brian M. Sobel, p. 176
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
Religion
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Kontext: Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions.
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Ik moet iets hebben naast man en kinderen waar ik me aan wijden kan! O ja, ik wil niet zoals de meeste mensen voor niets geleefd hebben. Ik wil van nut of plezier zijn voor de mensen, die om mij heen leven en die mij toch niet kennen.
5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Original: (nl) Ik moet iets hebben naast man en kinderen waar ik me aan wijden kan! O ja, ik wil niet zoals de meeste mensen voor niets geleefd hebben. Ik wil van nut of plezier zijn voor de mensen, die om mij heen leven en die mij toch niet kennen.
Variante: I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.
— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958
Quelle: Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
— Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
— Georgette Heyer British historical romance and detective fiction novelist 1902 - 1974
Quelle: Powder And Patch
„You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.“
— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958
Quelle: Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
„If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
— John D. Rockefeller American business magnate and philanthropist 1839 - 1937
Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
Kontext: I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
— Eric Sykes English actor and director 1923 - 2012
Quoted in BBC obituary 4 July 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18703602
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
No estoy seguro de que yo exista, en realidad. Soy todos los autores que he leído, toda la gente que he conocido, todas las mujeres que he amado. Todas las ciudades que he visitado, todos mis antepasados...
Quelle: El Pais, 1981 http://elpais.com/diario/1981/09/26/ultima/370303206_850215.html; translation: The Guardian, 2008 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/jorgeluisborges
— Chris Martin musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977
On Times of India interview, 2016. source https://timesofindia.com/entertainment/english/music/news/We-are-greedy-to-play-a-full-concert-in-Mumbai-we-havent-played-here-before/amp_articleshow/55488508.cms
— Lewis Pugh Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer 1969
Speaking & Features, My African Dream: Faith Rally Address, COP17
Kontext: The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of our generation and the benefit of future generations is our most crucial human right. I do not say that lightly - especially given South Africa’s past.
„Anjan Dutta is one of the most interesting persons I have ever met.“
— Arin Paul Indian film director 1980
Washington Bangla Radio http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/121578810-interview-arin-paul-film-maker-doshta-dosh-1010-jyanto-durga-durga-live (2010)
— Samuel Adams American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher 1722 - 1803
Essay published in The Advertiser (1748) http://thingsabove.freerovin.com/samadams.htm and later reprinted in The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams, Volume 1 (1865), by William Vincent Wells <!-- Little, Brown, and Company; Boston -->
Kontext: Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. We must not conclude merely upon a man's haranguing upon liberty, and using the charming sound, that he is fit to be trusted with the liberties of his country. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. It is not, I say, unfrequent to see such instances, though at the same time I esteem it a justice due to my country to say that it is not without shining examples of the contrary kind; — examples of men of a distinguished attachment to this same liberty I have been describing; whom no hopes could draw, no terrors could drive, from steadily pursuing, in their sphere, the true interests of their country; whose fidelity has been tried in the nicest and tenderest manner, and has been ever firm and unshaken.
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.
