Mihail Sebastian quote: "What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him."

I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Pla...
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. I...
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN

Barurile astea sunt ca femeile: nu ştii nici de ce vin, nici de ce te lasă.
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you kee...
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN

As a matter of fact, great passions remain unknown, they erade in the anonymity.
MIHAIL DRUMEş

Trinity of the soul, body and mind is the geolocation of God.
MIHAIL MILITARU

Împotriva cui să lupt mai repede,dacă totul luptă împotriva mea?
MIHAIL DRUMEş

Ea nu e în mobile,nu e în lucruri,nu e în atmosferă,nici măcar în străinătate.Ea e în mine,...
MIHAIL DRUMEş

I wanted to fall; good thing you pushed me.
MIHAIL DRUMEş

Bărbatul, datorită eului său aşa-zis "superior", se dă dragostei cu prudenţă, păstrând reze...
MIHAIL DRUMEş

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!
MIHAIL DRUMEş

Credeai că eşti stăpânul lumii, ţinând globul în palmă, cu muşchii abia tresărind? Te-ai �...
MIHAIL DRUMEş

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring ...
SEBASTIAN BACH

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.
SEBASTIAN STAN

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
SEBASTIAN COE

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the th...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it...
SEBASTIAN KOCH

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I ...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitel...
SEBASTIAN STAN

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Sili...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond d...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport v...
SEBASTIAN COE

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Stripped to its essence, combat is a series of quick decisions and rather precise actions carried ou...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony o...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldie...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the sh...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over th...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in ord...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
SEBASTIAN COE

World records are only borrowed.
SEBASTIAN COE

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not ...
SEBASTIAN PINERA

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You ne...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who ha...
SEBASTIAN COE

I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bi...
SEBASTIAN STAN

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in aca...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play go...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let i...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do th...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situat...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousn...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the r...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if yo...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the one...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-en...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to tr...
SEBASTIAN COE

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant mea...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
SEBASTIAN COE

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me...
SEBASTIAN STAN

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failu...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they'...
SEBASTIAN STAN

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
SEBASTIAN BACH

Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
SEBASTIAN BACH

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessn...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of...
SEBASTIAN COE

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their frie...
SEBASTIAN BACH

I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are craw...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuf...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my ...
SEBASTIAN STAN

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in f...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made ove...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I lo...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipli...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. A...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they ...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifie...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
SEBASTIAN BACH

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23...
SEBASTIAN COE

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative ex...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Too...
SEBASTIAN BACH

I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very divers...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet b...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's abou...
SEBASTIAN COE

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic r...
SEBASTIAN BACH

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There...
SEBASTIAN BACH

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurg...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we re...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celeb...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

You have lots of people from around the world contributing new features to it, testing it, fixing bu...
BYRON SEBASTIAN

For the first time the support business is a free market. There's competition for who's going to win...
BYRON SEBASTIAN

We found this was really what they were thinking about. They don't see those [proprietary applicatio...
BYRON SEBASTIAN

Although they thought the functional quality [of open source components] to be very high, they thoug...
BYRON SEBASTIAN

The cost of software is going down rapidly, the cost of producing intellectual property is going dow...
BYRON SEBASTIAN

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

This is the age of disruption.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just l...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Trace...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher educ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
SEBASTIAN BACH

We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn...
SEBASTIAN COE

I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise...
SEBASTIAN SEUNG

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.
SEBASTIAN PINERA

The world wants to be deceived.
SEBASTIAN BRANT

As she came up to the arch Elizabeth saw with a start that it was written on. She went closer. She p...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

The world loves to be deceived.
FRANCK SEBASTIAN

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that ba...
SEBASTIAN SEUNG

People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a l...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record de...
SEBASTIAN BACH

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn&#...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can...
SEBASTIAN COE

You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to unde...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pic...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you rea...
JOHN SEBASTIAN

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS

It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get r...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why y...
SEBASTIAN COE

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced again...
SEBASTIAN COE

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we ...
SEBASTIAN COE

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student populati...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 day...
SEBASTIAN COE

I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody ...
SEBASTIAN COE

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
SEBASTIAN BACH

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him,...
SEBASTIAN COE

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE...
SEBASTIAN COE

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
JOHN SEBASTIAN

Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don'...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
SEBASTIAN BACH

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the m...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
SEBASTIAN BACH

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
SEBASTIAN BACH

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the firs...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool -...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL

[Overhearing this, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, r...
SEBASTIAN COE

I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in inte...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally...
SEBASTIAN COE

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don'...
SEBASTIAN ROCHE

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled,...
SEBASTIAN COE

I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock cl...
SEBASTIAN BACH

A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to ...
SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. ...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poetic...
SEBASTIAN BARRY

I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affo...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalis...
SEBASTIAN BACH

I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in ...
SEBASTIAN BARRY

Hardware price cuts are necessary not only to drive demand at the end of a console cycle, but also t...
COLIN SEBASTIAN

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get t...
SEBASTIAN STAN

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
SEBASTIAN PINERA

...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last ...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, h...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, w...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admi...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr...
SEBASTIAN KOCH

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN

My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm fi...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambit...
SEBASTIAN COE

For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be...
SEBASTIAN KOCH

We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government ha...
SEBASTIAN PINERA

What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.

Mihail Sebastian

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