Richard Von Weizsaecker Quotes

#1. Sometimes it's the crazy people that bring out the best in us

Aishabella Sheikh

#2. Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#3. There is a drop of blood in the snow before me ... The coyote ... is in estrus ... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.

Craig Childs

#4. I don't want to tell people what to think. I just want to show people what I think.

Thu Tran

#5. All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I'm always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.

Jared Leto

#6. All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Alicia Silverstone

#7. The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

George Steiner

#8. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#9. Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#10. I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner ... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

Cameron Diaz

#11. So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".

Tommy Cooper

#12. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#13. Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. We could be happy if the air was as pure as beer.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#15. Not everyone knows what it is to have your father's rival's penis inches from your nose.

Ian McEwan

#16. From what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Mercedes Lackey

#17. All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#18. Never allow your fears to take control of you".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#19. I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.

Pierre Boulez

#20. There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

#21. Quick sip of her diet soda before she

Elizabeth Hunter

#22. I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

Daniel Handler