Charles Lindbergh Quotes
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
-
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
-
We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
-
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
-
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
-
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
-
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
-
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
-
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
-
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
-
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
-
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
-
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
-
I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
-
It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
-
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
-
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
-
Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
-
-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now
-
There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.
-
Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
-
Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.
-
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
-
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
