Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 20393.
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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(George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.
A Place Called Hope, speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992) -
(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album. What?!?
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 -
... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
Schneier, Bruce (2005) -
... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
Wings of Fire -
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...the levels of culture, the aspects of society: military, political, economic, social, emotional, religious, and intellectual. Those are your basic human needs....they are arranged in evolutionary sequence.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
1 have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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