Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

I was wondering why more hadn't been done with him in modern culture. I had just not seen anything about him and I wondered why.

Part of what's really extraordinary about that is Hispanics have been a large part of culture forever. Many of them were here before the Anglos were.

Yo-Yo Ma

Our (nation's) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Biz Stone

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Bob Gill

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

Gurinder Chadha

We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.

The region needs peace, economic development and real exercise of cultural rights for Kurds.

Chaske Spencer

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Carl Jung

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

Carl Jung

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

Liz Smith

wonderful way to cultivate friendships and give those in Medford a view of the outside world.

John Boyega

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

Mary Lambert

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Mona Simpson

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

We need to know whether there is a culture that promotes inappropriate relationships with women,

Reza Aslan

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Marquis de Lafayette

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

Mary Harris

We've learned about the different cultural dances and dress. And the food is great, too.

Octavio Paz

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

We have to prepare our people and our culture to cope.

You always think about this, but we've had the culture of losing for so long, you try not to get your hopes up. You just hold your breathe.

Weeding out the right people comes into understanding our culture and that goes into the work ethic and the quality of the work.

We handpicked the players to fit the culture and values we wanted. I wanted not just good players, but good people.

Ang Lee

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Microsoft is no longer the worst offender when it comes to sitting on patches. Oracle has taken that crown. But I think there's still a culture at Microsoft that security is a PR issue that must be handled delicately. And that's a dangerous culture.

Will the new population demand that the cultural feel of the French Quarter, the Garden District and the rest stay the same? ... Or will they be OK with a lot of new shopping malls taking over? Who knows?