„If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.“
"Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)
Charles Lindbergh
US-amerikanischer Pilot 1902 - 1974Ähnliche Zitate
— Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924
S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle.
Le Lys Rouge http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lys_rouge/I [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 1
„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variante: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
„Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.“
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Quelle: Finnikin of the Rock
— Condoleezza Rice American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist 1954
Press conference http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-03-30-questions-usat_x.htm, May 16, 2002.
„I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Letter to the editor of The Reporter about the situation of scientists in America (13 October 1954)
1950s
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Quelle: Finnikin of the Rock
„I wonder if she wouldn't choose his miserable common sense rather than her wealth?“
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
1846
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Kontext: If I were to imagine a girl deeply in love and some man who wanted to use all his reasoning powers and knowledge to ridicule her passion, well, there's surely no question of the enamoured girl having to choose between keeping her wealth and being ridiculed. No, but if some extremely cool and calculating man calmly told the young girl, "I will explain to you what love is," and the girl admitted that everything he told her was quite correct, I wonder if she wouldn't choose his miserable common sense rather than her wealth?
— Terry Tempest Williams, buch Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Quelle: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
— Themistocles Athenian statesman -524 - -459 v.Chr
As quoted in The Quotable Intellectual (2010) edited by P. Archer, p. 152 http://books.google.com/books?id=QnDvIsNKNIwC
— Lauren Tom actress, voice actress 1961
Actress Dazzles With One Women Show https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/11/18/actress-dazzles-with-one-women-show/ (18 November 2002)
„I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.“
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
„Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.“
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 v.Chr
"Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
As quoted in Florilegium, I.22, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 396
Florilegium
— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964
Quelle: Secrets of a Summer Night
