Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 5418.
-
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
-
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
-
Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
-
Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
-
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
-
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
-
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
-
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
-
For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
-
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
-
For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
-
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
Source: The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
-
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
-
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
-
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
-
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
-
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
All has-been famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 64)
