Quotes 381 till 400 of 3762.
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
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America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Source: Management Science Journal, October 1960 -
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
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