Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Eisenman

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

Kwame Nkrumah

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.

Karl Jaspers

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Julius Wellhausen

Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

Julius Wellhausen

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

Mary Hunter Austin

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Patty Murray

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

P. T. Barnum

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess...

Mary Roach

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

Preet Bharara

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

Margaret Thatcher

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

Park Geun-hye

I will open an era of grand national unity.

Leverett Saltonstall

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

Leon Panetta

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

Leon Panetta

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

Leon Panetta

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

Giorgio Napolitano

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

Muqtada al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

Katie Couric

The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

Michael Mandelbaum

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.

Michael Badnarik

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

Ravi Zacharias

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

Sofia Vergara

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

John Milton

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Max Weber

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Plato

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.