Quotes 8901 till 8920 of 10005.
-
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
Source: Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35 -
We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
-
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
-
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
-
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
-
We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
-
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
-
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
-
We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
-
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
-
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
-
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
-
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
-
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.
Source: with Anne Kalosh (October 1994), Bringing Science Down to Earth, Hemispheres -
We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
Source: A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2 -
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
-
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
-
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
-
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
-
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
Source: Characteristics (1823)
All one-man famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 446)