Bergasse 19 Quotes

#1. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

Hillary Clinton

#3. In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

Willa Cather

#4. Okay, here's one. Two years ago we interviewed a man from a small town in Vermont. Great reputation in his community. Owns a chain of highly successful hardware stores in the eastern part of the state.

John Sneeden

#5. Some people seem to be born to suffer.

August Strindberg

#6. I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

Faith Evans

#7. Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.

Tom Bliss

#8. We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. What else is a nation but a patchwork of cities and towns; cities and towns a patchwork of neighborhoods; and neighborhoods a patchwork of homes?

Matthew Desmond

#10. I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#11. Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

Rene Huyghe

#12. It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:
1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done.

Jon Acuff

#14. All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

Randall Kennedy