Quotes with non-politics

Quotes 81 till 100 of 371.

  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Jane Austen From politics it was an easy step to silence.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anna Lindh Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Chris Patten Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Half a truth is better than no politics.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Gurley Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cass Sunstein Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Art Buchwald I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alain de Botton I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • George Borrow I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Byron Dorgan I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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