Quotes with non-nostalgic

Quotes 61 till 80 of 96.

  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Albert Camus Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Selma James Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants - even women! - new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
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  • Bob Filner Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • John W. Gardner Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Arthur Laffer Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Hornsby That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Aldous Huxley The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • J. G. Ballard The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Paul E. Little The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Ben Nicholson The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
    Notes on Abstract Art in Herbert Reads Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings (London, 1948)
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Joan Baez The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Bill Burr The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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