Karen Von Blixen Quotes

#1. A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.

Eugene V. Debs

#2. It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Lady Bird Johnson

#3. I tell people: 'Do what you love, but it can also be hard to know what you love early on. But when you think about it and you describe the options, which one gets you a little more excited?'

Brad D. Smith

#4. Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. Fear of vikings build castles.

Charles Manson

#6. The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#7. A man of purpose may fall many times, but the knowledge of his purpose will be the reason he gets up every time.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#8. When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Karen Blixen

#9. Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#10. There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Martin McGuinness

#11. When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

James Cromwell

#12. I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us ...

Bernadette Roberts