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america people gone
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts
america political parks
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. Alan Rickman
america sick dumb
The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly! Alan Grayson
america sick care
If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.
america labor-force competition
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality. Alan Greenspan
america perfect understanding
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them. Alan Ball
america black stories
I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows. Al Sharpton
america doubt world
There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
america laughing way
America is laughing her way to Hell. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
comparing either example looking organism several structure ways
There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either by looking at the structure of the eye and comparing it with other species, or by behavioural tests. Tim Birkhead
comparing early hope miramax smart
Miramax started out as a film distributor and they were really smart in their acquisitions in the early years. I would hope that's what they're comparing us to. Bob Berney
comparing constantly herself people prettier
With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else. Brittany Snow
comparing shop
I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.
comparing influenced message
It was the part of Gambian culture where they give each other advice a lot, how they're always comparing things in order to get a message across... that really influenced the way I write. Seinabo Sey
comparing funny guest home people recurring rhythm work
Every set has their own personalities and their own quirks. It's funny comparing starring in a show to going in and doing recurring work - there's already a rhythm that's been established, and people know each other so well. It's like being a guest in someone else's home. Sara Rue
comparing figuring others people secrets themselves trade
People would trade secrets about their tendencies, comparing themselves to others and figuring out how other people did it.
comparing confirmed previous tornado
But we're comparing tornado reports, which are probably inflated, with confirmed tornadoes for previous years.
comparing decline decrease dramatic number numbers true violent
I wouldn't read a lot into one year's statistics. That's particularly true at the moment, when you've had a number of years of pretty dramatic decline in violent crime. If you're comparing this year's numbers to the 1990s, the story would be a decrease in crime. Tom Johnson
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
era needed style
We're in a very different era now. The style then was right for then, and a new style is needed for now. David Cameron
era history measures opens security united
When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that will have to be put into place to ratchet up security in the United States, it's monumental. This opens up a new era in the history of terrorism.
eras ends harder
He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. Cheryl Strayed
era performance standing threshold
We're standing at the threshold of a new era in high-performance computing.
era help humanity pope possible
The pope did everything possible to help humanity out of its era of hate. Mikhail Gorbachev
eras conception
Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future. Brian Eno
era fantastic fit louis picked power
If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely. Katie McGrath
eradicate features front power previous problem successful suspension test
We had a very successful test with the TF105B, which features a different front suspension from the TF105, ... We had a problem with the power steering at the previous test, but here at Silverstone we were able to eradicate it.
eras virtue old-fashioned
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
given no-hope pledge
God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill. Charles Spurgeon
given guy guys perception
The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win. Lee Janzen
given park rules
We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.
given life lived name people talk tony
I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. Nicolas Roeg
given movies sad
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
given relevant considering
I have given up considering happiness as relevant. Edward Gorey
given hoard wealth
Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours. Sathya Baba
given heck love sharks shocked
What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it. Luc Robitaille
given
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. Bill McKibben
hungry describe-me mellow
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
hungry-for-success superstar good-work
I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. Akshay Kumar
hunger braces famine
You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger. David Sedaris
hunger humans
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
hunger law
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger. Benjamin Franklin
hunger-strike literature demand
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. Edwin Louis Cole
hunger feels stills
Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn. Charlize Theron
hungry hungry-for-knowledge species
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. Chaim Potok
hungry belly angry
Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob. Bob Marley
justified kong ratings upgrade
The ratings upgrade is justified because things in Hong Kong are really improving.
justified position presented
We presented the position that we thought was justified in this case. Mark Johnson
justified chickens
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified. Daniel Pauly
justified law war
If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,
justified raised seven york
I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats! Blake Lively
justified listen people rid youths
I say to my friends in Hebron that they should have done everything to get rid of those youths who are eradicating any possibility of having people listen to their very justified complaints.
justified victim self-defense
We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely. Jeff Cooper
justified feels
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. Graham Chapman
justified nice playing recently
It was very nice obviously, ... I am playing a lot better recently so it was kind of justified I think.
later-in-life life-is-hard trying
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. Bryan Adams
later-in-life handsome
As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome. Mark Cuban
later-in-life fame
It's probably healthier to find fame later in life. Bill Nighy
later school
When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.
later line list sit year
We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.
later
We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.
later offer opportunity raise
Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.
later life perhaps shelves side
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life. Umberto Eco
later learned men nobody save shot
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. Ernst Toller
lincoln mount patron presidents saint unpopular
Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so. Richard Norton Smith
lincoln
I don't know. She's at another Lincoln Day probably, another Lincoln Day dinner.
lincoln memorial powerful saved says
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
lincoln minute played player quality
Lincoln played very well and showed what a quality player he is from the minute he got in.
lincoln man
Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea. Mario Cuomo
lincoln man
Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America. Henry Cabot Lodge
lincoln program run
They want us to run a Lincoln program on a Yugo budget, Phil Harris
nixon nsa richard
We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. Louie Gohmert
nixon president primarily
President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people. Edward Brooke
nixon saw somebody
Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal. Philip Zimbardo
nixon officials
Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.
nixon presidents richard skilled
I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.
nixon opportunity visited
When Nixon visited China, I thought there is an opportunity there.
nixon
I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.
nixon relationship
Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship. John Chancellor
nixon realize responsibility white
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House. John F. Kennedy
portraits creation
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith
portraits demand motion-pictures
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. Alfred Stieglitz
portraits portraiture paint
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. Jamie Wyeth
portraiture faces portraits
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
portraits danger methodology
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
portraits bookcases
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard
portraits firsts recognition
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place. Chuck Close
portraiture roger able
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin. E. M. Forster
portraits process sat
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Anthony Powell
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
richard
Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard. Xavier Niel
richard
I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that. Alexa Von Tobel
richard
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III. Ving Rhames
richard similar
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent. Aneurin Barnard
richard
I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade. Craig Roberts
richard sir
You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved. Alan Sugar
richard-feynman earth may
Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth. Bill Bryson
richard sort
Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.
richard taylor
They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era. Nikki Sixx
seen sound stretch
We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us. Greg Jackson
seen super tickets week wrote
We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.
seen shining
To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon. Marc Morial
seen
I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout. Sam Taylor-Johnson
seen
Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that? Verne Lundquist
seen
Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.
seen since team teams
Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs. Keyshawn Johnson
seen since
Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace. Roy Evans
seen
We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.
vietnam cambodia felt
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. Ed Bradley
vietnam enough enough-is-enough
Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam. Charles Rangel
vietnam aviation flight
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat. Dick Rutan
vietnam film
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. Francis Ford Coppola
vietnam hiding accusing
Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam. Jay Leno
vietnam vietnam-war problem
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
vietnam lasts blast
There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies. Quentin Tarantino
vietnam world would-be
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. John Kenneth Galbraith
vietnam syndromes fabrication
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. Noam Chomsky
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.