Friedrich Ratzel Quotes

#1. It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

Bresha Webb

#2. If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

Jordan Belfort

#3. I don't."
"Don't what?" She asked, somewhat puzzled.
"I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Grace Fiorre

#4. Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

Friedrich Ratzel

#5. A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.

Friedrich Ratzel

#6. Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

Paul Lansky

#7. I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.

Pierre Soulages

#8. I need all my strength to stop myself from reaching out and slapping him across the face every time he smiles at me.

Cecelia Ahern

#9. Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

John Derbyshire

#10. I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

Gary Barlow

#11. I must forever imagine myself comparing every man I meet to Mr. Darcy and finding the otherwise worthy gentleman wanting.

P.O. Dixon

#12. I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

Gretchen Rubin