Small: People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed never throw out
Audrey Hepburn
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: Paris is always a good idea
Audrey Hepburn
"Paris is always a good idea"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking
Audrey Hepburn
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: Lets face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people it does for me
Audrey Hepburn
"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: Its that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by
Audrey Hepburn
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses
Audrey Hepburn
"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects
"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it
"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balan
"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete
"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, d
"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an e
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own
"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it
"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of bore
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself forgetting that I exist, I realize
"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life never before has a generation, dr
"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a mans life than in all the philosophies
"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrend
"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without und
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fratern
"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption"
Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher
Small: Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we se
"Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty"
Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer
Small: There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world
"There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world"
Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman
Small: He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home
"He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home"
Stijn Streuvels, Writer
Small: Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts
"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts"
Paul de Man, Critic
Small: Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing tha
"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place"
Paul de Man, Critic
Small: I also served on many government committees
"I also served on many government committees"
Leo Baekeland, Inventor
Small: The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam.
"The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity"
Henri Pirenne, Historian
Small: Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests
"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests"
Albert Claude, Scientist
Small: In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to rec
"In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
Small: In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen
"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
Small: In the end I didnt get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality
"In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
Small: Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to furthe
"Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations"
Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman
Small: Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a
"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure"
Paul de Man, Critic
Small: Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature
"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
Small: The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs
"The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs"
Henri Pirenne, Historian
Small: When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to
"When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills"
Albert Claude, Scientist
Small: The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your in
"The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
Small: But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension
"But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity