Strahovi Henrik Quotes

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling. ~ Henrik Fisker

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done. ~ Henrik Ibsen

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless ... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. ~ John Henrik Clarke

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. ~ John Henrik Clarke

I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me. ~ Henrik Lundqvist

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ~ Henrik Ibsen

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence ~ Henrik Bering

One entry was entitled: "About God":
"This thought has been ascribed to Voltaire: If God did not exist, mankind would have invented Him. I find more truth in the reverse: If there really is a God, then we should seek to forget Him, to raise up men who will to do good for goodness' sake, not out of fear of punishment for their bad deeds. How can someone give alms to a poor man with a clean heart when he believes, and has an interest in believing, that there is a God who keeps score in heaven, who looks down and nods in approval? ~ Henrik Pontoppidan

Really to sin you have to be serious about it. ~ Henrik Ibsen

HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties?
NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty?
HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children?
NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred.
HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean?
NORA: My duty to myself. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Oh, yes
you
can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has
might on its side
unfortunately; but right it has not. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall. ~ Henrik Ibsen

To be oneself on a basis of gold
is no better than founding one's house on the sand.
For your watch, and your ring, and the rest of your trappings
the good people fawn on you, grovelling to earth;
they lift their hats to your jewelled breast-pin;
but your ring and your breast-pin are not your person.- ~ Henrik Ibsen

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue. ~ Karl-Henrik Robert

I'll risk everything together with you. ~ Henrik Ibsen

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ~ Henrik Ibsen

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom. ~ Henrik Ibsen

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment. ~ John Henrik Clarke

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them. ~ John Henrik Clarke

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? ~ Henrik Ibsen

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~ Henrik Ibsen

One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Just because they're going to the gym, a lot of guys wear old T-shirts that look like they've been lying in the closet for 15 years. My workout clothes have to work. ~ Henrik Lundqvist

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. ~ Henrik Ibsen

That's pretty amazing, the countries thing," I said.
"Yeah, everybody's got a talent. I can memorize things. And you can...?"
"Urn, I know a lot of people's last words." It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate;
I had dying declarations.
"Example?"
"I like Henrik Ibsen's. He was a playwright." I knew a lot about Ibsen, but I'd never read any of his plays. I didn't
like reading
plays. I liked reading biographies.
"Yeah, I know who he was," said Chip.
"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him,
'You seem to be feeling better this morning/ and Ibsen looked at her and said, `On the contrary,' and then he
died."
Chip laughed. "That's morbid. But I like it. ~ John Green

OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun. ~ Henrik Ibsen

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them. ~ Henrik Ibsen

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. ~ John Henrik Clarke

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie. ~ Henrik Ibsen

The greatest victory is defeat. ~ Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt! ~ Henrik Ibsen

ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home. ~ Henrik Ibsen

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California. ~ Henrik Fisker

When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. ~ Henrik Ibsen

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior - don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend.
Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes! ~ Henrik Ibsen

I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right. ~ Henrik Fisker

No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Oh, we are all of us run over, sometime or other in life. The thing is to jump up again, and let no one see you are hurt. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history. ~ John Henrik Clarke